AN ANTIQUE AFSHAR RUG, the ivory field with dense flowering and leafy vine around a large indigo medallion containing similar motifs and large palmettes issuing from a central polychrome striped flowerhead, the stepped indigo pendants with similar motifs, the linked fox-brown stepped spandrels with arabesques and small floral motifs, in a border of polychrome stripes enclosing cruciform flowerheads between flowerhead panel and minor similar, barber-pole and plain stripes, a triple panelled skirt and striped kilim strip at each end (slight wear, one end slightly rewoven)