AN ANTIQUE KAISERI 'SILK' RUG, the fox-brown field with dense flowering trees, floral sprays and perching birds around a concentric ogival light blue and ivory floral medallion with stepped indigo inscription frame, the grey and tan spandrels with arabesques and floral motifs, in an indigo palmette, flowering vine, perching bird and mythical beast border between pistachio-green similar and ivory meandering flowerhead stripes, outer reciprocal trefoil stripe