A KASHAN CARPET, of Joshaghan design, the indigo field with floral sprays issuing from diagonal rows of a variety of floral and arabesque lozenge medallions flanking a central concentric brick-red, light blue and lemon-yellow lozenge medallion containing similar motifs, the spandrels similar, in an indigo border of scrolling arabesques issuing flowering vine and palmettes between golden yellow flowerhead and arabesque, minor rust-red floral, light blue floral and reciprocal skittle-pattern stripes, plain outer raspberry-red stripe.