AN ANTIQUE SILK KASHAN 'MOCHTASHAM' PICTORIAL RUG, the field depicting the mounted figure of Nasr al-Din Shah surrounded by fruit trees, flowers, a stream with fish below, extensive buildings visible on the horizon flanking an identificatory inscription cartouche, in a blackcurrant-red border of palmettes, flowering vine and arabesques between meandering floral and reciprocal Y-pattern stripes, a short kilim strip at one end (small repairs)