AN ANTIQUE AFSHAR RUG, the brick-red field with diagonal rows of stylised hooked boteh around a large ivory stepped panel containing horizontal rows of polychrome angular flowerheads issuing hooked motifs flanked by serrated leaves, in a narrow indigo floral border between zigzag stripes, embroidered polychrome serrated skirt at each end (slight loss at each end and very slight repiling of corroded black)