A KASHAN CARPET, the royal blue field with scrolling floral vine connecting groups of flowerheads, hooked palmettes, and stylised houses around a cusped central brick-red medallion enclosing eight polychrome smaller floral medallions around a central light-blue shaped panel with stylised flowers, the shaded red and ivory spandrels similar, in a shaded red border of linked scrolling vine and palmettes between light-blue and ivory reciprocal floral stripes, plain outer blue stripe (dry, slight splitting)