A fine antique Malayer rug, the shaded charcoal-black field with stylised herati pattern in brick-red, yellow, aqua-blue and indigo around ivory and yellow cusped medallion with pendants of a similar design, ivory spandrels similar surrounded by shaded sky-blue border of stylised hooked palmette vine between brick-red flowerhead and barber-pole stripes --6ft.9in. x 4ft.8in.(206cm. x 142cm.)