A KURK KASHAN PRAYER RUG, the shaded brick-red field with a large central stylised vase flanked by flowering trees and perching birds issuing a dense profusion of flowering plants with perching birds, the light blue mihrab arch with flowering vine and cowering rabbits, in an indigo dense arabesque, flowering vine and palmette border between narrow floral and reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes (negligible loss at each end, slight repaired moth damage)