AN ANTIQUE SERAPI CARPET, the ivory field with a large indigo oval medallion containing bold angular arabesques and floral sprays radiating from a central flowerhead and ringed by a red flaming aureole with pendants, the linked powder-pink spandrels with angular vine flowerheads and small floral motifs, in a broad shaded brick-red border of angular turtle-palmettes and flowerheads between shaded light blue leafy vine stripes (areas of very slight wear)