AN ANTIQUE SILK KASHAN CARPET, the shaded blue field with an overall design of delicate polychrome lozenges surrounded by a variety of flowerheads around a cusped raspberry-red and ice-blue medallion with a variety of floral motifs and delicate floral lozenges, the raspberry-red and ice-blue spandrels similar, in a broad raspberry-red border of delicate linked flowerhead between golden yellow flowerheads and floral cartouches, between reciprocal multiple golden-yellow and shaded blue narrow floral stripes, plain raspberry-red outer stripe (areas of wear, dry at one end, small splits, stabilised ends)