AN ANTIQUE SHIRVAN RUNNER, the brick-red field scattered with flowerheads, rosettes and birds around a long crenellated royal blue panel with rounded ends enclosed within a golden yellow stripe of polychrome serrated motifs and containing flowerhead sprays radiating from a central column of ivory angular octagons linked by chequered lozenges, in an ivory stylised glass and serrated leaf border between charcoal-grey carnation sprays stripes, an illegible inscription in one corner (areas of slight wear and repair, corroded black)