An antique Ziegler carpet, the shaded sky-blue field with overall angular vines, bold palmettes, serrated leaves and flowerheads in ivory, rust-red, yellow, apricot, charcoal-black and fox-brown surrounded by broad ivory border of stylised mandering palmette vine and floral sprays between rust-red hooked vine, charcoal-black reciprocal trefoil and barber-pole stripes, outer sky-blue plain stripe, areas of wear --12ft.10in. x 8ft.10in.(392cm. x 268cm.)