A FINE ANTIQUE BAKHTIARI CARPET, the ivory field with angular flowering vine around a central indigo stepped medallion with an apricot central panel issuing angular flowerhead vine with double pendants, the brick-red and sandy yellow spandrels similar, in an indigo border of angular arabesques enclosing ivory panels and turtle-palmettes between golden yellow and light blue floral and minor zigzag stripes, inscription cartouche at one end 'to the order of huzrat Ashraf Aga ..... ?Sheikh, work of the Bakhtiari' (negligible wear)