A Bakhtiari rug, the shaded brick-red field with meandering flowerhead and palmette vines around cusped indigo floral medallion with pendants containing ivory flowerhead centrepiece, blue palmette wide spandrels, in an ivory flowerhead and palmette border between flowering vine stripes, damaged at one side --6ft.10in. x 4ft.9in. (238cm. x 145cm.)