AN ANTIQUE KASHAN MOCHTASHAM CARPET, the ivory field with scrolling arabesques enclosing a variety of flowering vine and palmettes around the cusped concentric indigo, dusty red and ivory medallion around a central rosette, the spandrels similar, in a broad indigo border of palmettes divided by arabesques surrounded by flowering vine between dusty red floral meander, ochre angular flowering vine, minor linked lozenge and arcaded stripes (areas of wear, slight stain)