An antique Serapi carpet, the brick-red field with angular vines connecting palmettes, flowerheads and serrated leaves around large shaded blue stepped medallion with bold serrated palmette pendants containing stylised serrated similar smaller medallion with palmettes, wide ivory spandrels similar surrounded by broad indigo border of angular turtle-palmettes between yellow and pale red flowering vine stripes, tinted, areas of wear and repair --15ft.8in. x 10ft.10in. (476cm. x 329cm.)