A Sparta rug, the brick-red field with two large linked indigo and yellow stepped and indented hooked medallions each containing floral motifs and octagon centrepiece surrounded by small floral and hooked motifs, in an ivory linked serrated lozenge border between hooked vine zig-zag and barber-pole stripes --7ft.11in. x 5ft.2in.(241cm. x 157cm.)