A PART SILK KASHAN NATANZ RUG, the brick-red field with a central flower-vase issuing a variety of floral sprays flanked by twin delicate flowering trees, the indigo mihrab arch with scrolling palmettes and flowering vine, in an indigo border of floral sprays around cartouches containing stylised landscapes between meandering ivory floral, reciprocal Y-pattern and zigzag stripes, plain red outer stripe