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a very fine silk kashan prayer rug
The ivory field with stylized vase at one end issuing polychrome flower-sprays flanked by entwined flowering trees, single column at each side supporting a shaded purple flowering mihrab, in shaded purple border of serrated palmettes and meandering flowering vine between eau-de-Nil flower-head vine stripes, outer linked lozenge, reciprocal skittle-pattern and plain stripes
The ivory field with stylized vase at one end issuing polychrome flower-sprays flanked by entwined flowering trees, single column at each side supporting a shaded purple flowering mihrab, in shaded purple border of serrated palmettes and meandering flowering vine between eau-de-Nil flower-head vine stripes, outer linked lozenge, reciprocal skittle-pattern and plain stripes