A FINE ANTIQUE SILK HERIZ RUG, the shaded camel field with a counterposed design of hooked tracery arabesques and large feathery eau-de-nil leaves around a central chequered cusped flowerhead, entwined confronted serpents at each end, the ivory spandrels with arabesques, in a tan border of bold palmettes and flowerhead vine between light blue linked flowerhead stripes (very slight loss at each end, replaced selvedges, small split)