This remarkable carpet has a number of unusual features. The field has large palmettes and flowerheads in an ordered arrangement joined by diagonal green tendrils. This is similar to the arrangement found on some of the Caucasian blossom carpets (Yetkin, S.: Early Caucasian Carpets in Turkey, London, 1978, vol.1 pl.96 for example). Yet unlike the blossom carpets, the tendrils have more structure and the blossoms a diagonal symmetry, relating the design closer to 16th and 17th century Persian origins. In contrast to the field, the central medallion is densely crowded with motifs, almost all of which have similarities with motifs found in both carpets and embroideries from 18th century Caucasus. Particularly noticeable are the panels issuing hooked motifs which could be a part of the harshang pattern but which also relate to border panel designs on a number of Caucasian carpets. Yet the overall arrangement of motifs within the medallion is closer to embroideries. The inner guard stripe, while it is found on Caucasian carpets (Yetkin, op.cit., vol.II fig.191) again is slightly simplified but close to the Persian prototype seen, for example, in the McIlhenny Tree carpet (Ellis, C.G.:Oriental Carpets, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1988, no.51, pp.177-183). The structure clearly identifies the carpet as Caucasian. The design details demonstrate this is another member of the disparate group of interesting rugs made in the Caucasus in the 18th century but with strong stylistic links to neighbouring Persia