AN EXTREMELY FINE ISFAHAN HEKMATNEJED RUG, the royal blue field with scrolling delicate palmette vine spiralling around similar arabesque vine flanking a concentric brick-red, light blue and buff arabesque cartouche medallion with pendants, the spandrels with spiralling arabesque interlace, in a buff border of meandering palmette vine between ivory palmette and perching bird and light blue arabesque stripes, plain buff outer stripe, a broad silk kilim strip at each end, one end with signature cartouche 'Iran Isfahan woven by Hekmatnejad (Majnuni)', silk warps (negligible removable staining)