AN ISFAHAN MEHDI SERAFIAN RUG, the ivory field with spiralling palmette and leafy vine around a cusped brick-red panelled arabesque roundel with a shaded pink centrepiece, the cafe-au-lait and chocolate-brown spandrels similar, in an indigo arabesque and palmette border between brick-red and cafe-au-lait meander floral stripes, signature cartouche at each end, plain brick-red outer stripe