A Kashan carpet, the indigo field with meandering floral vines connecting multicoloured flowerheads. palmettes and serrated leaves around cusped brick-red and ivory floral medallion with pendants, similar spandrels, in brick-red meandering palmette vine border between ivory and blue flowering vine stripes, signature cartouche at one end --11ft.3in. x 8ft.1in.(342cm. x 246cm.)