AN ANTIQUE PICTORIAL KASHAN RUG, the main field with a depiction of Azarmid Dokht, a queen from the Shahnameh, seated on an ornate throne, below the shaded red field with ice-blue scrolling arabesques, the ivory upper field with a leafy tree and perching birds, the indigo mihrab arch with scrolling arabesques, in an ivory border of polychrome floral sprays with upper identificatory cartouche between reciprocal dusty-red and ice-blue stylised linked arch and plain outer red stripes (areas of moth damage and slight repair)