AN ANTIQUE KARATCHOPF KAZAK RUG, the sea-green field with variously coloured panels containing hooked motifs together with four larger ivory hooked panels of stellar flowerheads around a similar concentric ivory octagonal panel with chequered spandrels, in a panelled lemon-yellow border of hooked panels interspersed with stylised animals and human figures between curl-hooked and reciprocal skittle-pattern and zigzag stripes (areas of very slight wear)