AN EMPIRE AUBUSSON CARPET, the olive-green field with diagonal rows of light green flowerheads within an acorn and oak-leaf frame, a floral bouquet at each corner, the centre with a flowerhead and leafy floral roundel containing a floral bouquet, in a brown flowering vine border between blackcurrant inner rope-stripe and fox-brown, orange and golden-yellow plain outer stripes (some areas of wear, repair and splitting)