A KASHAN CARPET, the royal blue field with scrolling floral sprays and flowering tendrils around a cusped brick-red lozenge medallion containing fine floral sprays and floral cartouches, palmette pendants above and below, the brick-red, apricot and light blue spandrels similar, in a brick-red border of palmettes, flowering vine and leafy floral sprays between ice-blue and apricot meandering flowering vine stripes, plain outer blue stripes (one area of wear)