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