AN ANTIQUE KASHAN 'MOCHTASHAM' CARPET, the indigo field with scrolling palmette vine around a concentric ivory, brick-red and indigo arabesque and floral medallion with pendants, the linked ivory spandrels similar, in a pale salmon-pink border of alternating indigo cartouches and ice-blue roundels between ivory and light blue floral stripes, reciprocal skittle-pattern outer stripe, workshop signature at each end (areas of wear, stains, slit)