AN ANTIQUE KARATCHOPF KAZAK RUG, the rust-red field with floral lozenges and multicoloured panels containing hooked motifs together with four larger ivory rectangular hooked panels containing flowerheads around a large central ivory octagon with chequered spandrels containing hooked multi-coloured lozenges and panels, in a shaded blue and sea-green cruciform flowerhead border between brown and yellow or ivory reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes (slight corrosion, otherwise excellent pile)