A Kashan carpet, the shaded red field with meandering vines connecting multicoloured flowerheads, palmettes and serrated leaves around cusped indigo floral medallion with ivory and blue flowerhead centrepiece, similar indigo and ivory wide spandrels, in an indigo floral palmette vine border between flowerhead vine stripes, slight wear at one end --14ft.5in. x 10ft.7in.(439cm. x 322cm.)