A SILK SOUF KASHAN CARPET, the flat woven apricot field with a counterposed design of scrolling arabesque vine and feathery leaves with palmettes and flowerheads together with various animals and perching birds, in a similar palmette arabesque and flowering vine border between similar and minor floral meander stripes, plain outer piled apricot stripe, a short kilim strip at each end (slight wear and negligible stain)