AN ANTIQUE AFSHAR RUG, the dark brown field with a dense linked boteh lattice flanking a serrated hexagonal ivory panel with flowering vine and stylised animals around four stylised brick-red cypress trees, in a shaded red flowerhead and serrated leaf border between ivory hooked motif stripes, outer dark brown meandering vine stripe, a polychrome baton stripe at each end (slight wear, black corroded and with some tinting)