AN ANTIQUE SHIRAZ RUG, the indigo field scattered with a variety of floral lozenges, rosettes, boteh and chickens around a string of four linked medium blue lozenge medallions containg similar motifs around stylised hooked palmettes, flanked by similar part lozenges of polychrome floral stripes, in a shaded flox-brown border of linked polychrome hooked concentric octogans between ivory and pistachio-green meandering geometric, zigzag and panelled floral stripes, a panelled skirt and panelled strip at each end (slight wear, minute repairs)