AN ANTIQUE SAROUK RUG, the indigo field with flowering vine tendrils around an elongated cusped ivory medallion containing scrolling red arabesques and flowering vine flanking a rosette, the brick-red spandrels with flowering vine around groups of three boteh, in an indigo meandering serrated leaf, palmette and flowering vine border between ivory flowerhead vine and minor zigzag stripes (negligible staining, one end with very slight loss)