A fine Ispahan rug, the shaded raspberry-red field with scrolling arabesques issuing delicate floral tendrils around a cusped indigo palmette medallion with pendants, similar indigo spandrels, in an indigo stylised flowerhead vine border between flowering vine and reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes --7ft.4in. x 4ft.8in.(224cm. x 142cm.)