The ivory field with hooked leafy vine togheter with cypress trees at each end around large hooked and stepped rust-red floral medallion with bold palmette pendants ecnlosing smaller medalllion with palmette cartouches and hooked cenntrepiece. In an indigoo border of stylised turtle palmettes and angularflorla vine between floral and barber-pole stripes, approx. 220cm. x 137cm. Very nice quality and very well drawn design. Good colour combination. This rug has full pile, very soft and lustrous silk. very fine weave approx: 10 x 10 knots per sq.cm; woven on silk foundation. Both selvages original. Ends with original, embroidered kilim and fringes, also original. In general this rug is in very good condition throughout. Very Attractive and elegant piece.