AN ANTIQUE SHIRVAN RUG, the shaded indigo field scattered with animal figures, jewellery, angular flowerheads, hooked lozenges and large angular floral sprays around a column of two cruciform polychrome serrated lozenges containing a polychrome pole medallion, in a brick- red border of serrated leaf and polychrome panels between golden yellow and ivory flowerhead stripes, plain outer blue stripe, (negligible areas of wear)