AN ANTIQUE AFSHAR RUG, the shaded indigo field with two large counterposed stylised vases issuing floral sprays and four stylised teapots around a central cusped medium blue medallion containing small flowerheads and leafy motifs issuing from a central flowerhead, the brick-red spandrels similar, in a brick-red turtle-palmette and flowering vine border between blue meandering vine stripes, ivory inner geometric meander stripe, a short kilim strip at each end (slight wear and repiling)