AN UNUSUAL BAKHTIARI CARPET, the mustard-yellow field with two stepped pink panels containing goatherds and their charges flanking a large central leafy tree with perching birds, animals, birds and inverted trees above, a panel of similar motifs below, in a light blue flowerhead, running animal, cypress tree and human figure border between pink angular vine and reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes, plain outer yellow stripe (one border damaged)