A MEHDI DARDASHTI ISFAHAN RUG, the light blue field with scrolling arabesque intertwined with white floral sprays together with a variety of animals around a cusped ice-blue and ivory animal and arabesque central roundel with pendants, the buff spandrels with animal cartouches, flowering vine and birds, in a shaded tomato-red border of flowering vine between ivory and ice-blue floral stripes, signature cartouche at one end, silk foundation kilim strip at each end