AN ISFAHAN GHAFARIAN CARPET, the light blue field with delicate tendrils issuing palmettes and feathery leaves around a cusped blood-red palmette medallion with pendants and ivory interlace centrepiece, the buff, ivory, red and pistachio-green spandrels with similar motifs, in a buff border of scrolling arabesque interlace around palmettes and flowering vine between ivory and indigo flowering vine stripes, plain outer red stripe, a signature cartouche at one end, silk warps (excellent condition)