This composite fragment comes from a well-documented group of vase carpets with fields filled with polychrome lozenges divided by serrated leaves. Each lozenge can contain either six or, as here, four large palmettes, floral motifs or vases. No complete carpet of this group is known, although eighteen fragments are known, some of them of large size. The present fragment, although in poor condition, displays features that do not appear on any other of the illustrated published fragments, most notably the border. It is closest in feel to that of the fragmentary carpet formerly with Cassirer, Berlin (Erdmann, K.: '"The Art of Carpet Making" in A Survey of Persian Art, Rezension', Ars Islamica Vol.VIII, 1941, parts 1 and 2, pp.121-190, pl.20), but in comparison the present border is less stiffly drawn.