AN ANTIQUE SAROUK CARPET, the brick-red field with floral sprays around a cusped concentric indigo and salmon-pink medallion with floral sprays issuing palmettes and multiple palmette and large serrated leaf pendants, the ivory spandrels with light blue floral cartouches, in an indigo 'Shah Abbas' border of large palmettes linked by arabesques surrounded by and enclosing floral sprays between mustard-yellow and pistachio-green flowering vine stripes, inner zigzag and outer plain red stripes (repaired borders, negligible loss at each end)