A VERY FINE SILK 'MOCHTASHAM' CARPET, the steel-blue field with stylised floral motifs and an alternating pistachio-green and purple half lozenge frame around an ivory similar shaped panel containing a steel-grey, purple and light blue similar shaped lozenge medallion and pendants, in a shaded steel-blue border of purple meandering arabesques containing floral sprays linking alternating apricot and ivory palmette cartouches between apricot meandering vine and purple linked lozenge and reciprocal stripes (areas of wear and corrosion)