A FINE ANTIQUE SHIRVAN PRAYER RUG, the indigo field with a variety of polychrome stepped flowerhead panels and hooked lozenges around a shaped panel containing similar but slightly larger motifs enclosed within an ivory border of stylised serrated leaves, in an ivory crab-rosette border between panelled flowerhead, spiralling ribbon and barber-pole stripes, short kilim and braiding at each end (slight even wear and minute repiling)