A fine Kashan carpet, the brick-red field with delicate tendrils connecting multicoloured serrated palmettes, leaves and flowerheads around royal-blue and ivory cusped floral medallion with double hooked palmette pendants, similar wide floral spandrels surrounded by royal-blue border of scrolling arabesques and serrated palmettes between ivory and sky-blue meandering palmette vine stripes --14ft.2in. x 10ft.(431cm. x 305cm.)