AN ANTIQUE SILK KASHAN PRAYER RUG, the royal blue field with a stylised vase issuing an angular tree and surrounded by flowerheads, flowering vine and perching birds around a stylised flowerhead panel, an angular vine open mihrab arch above, in a tomato-red border of polychrome angular flowerheads between narrow reciprocal zigzag stripes outer indigo angular vine and plain raspberry stripes (dry, splitting, ends bound)