A FINE ANTIQUE SILK KASHAN 'MOCHTASHAM' CARPET, the ivory field with angular flowering and palmette vine around a cusped blackcurrant-red lozenge medallion containing similar motifs around an ivory flowerhead centrepiece, the blackcurrant-red and light blue spandrels similar, in a light blue border of scrolling flowering vine between ivory and blackcurrant-red floral and minor plain stripes