rug, prayer, with a red field fringed around the inner border with profile blossoms in dark blue. The prayer niche ahs a stepped outline in blue, white, gold, mauve, and red,a nd is flanked by red ewers in the green panel above the niche. A cross panel dircetly above carries a band of prayer-niche forms in blue, mauve, green, and gold on a red ground. Three borders, the wide central one filled with floral forms in diamond shaped panels on a gold ground, the inner on e of interlocking lozenges on a blue ground, and the outer on e of formalized blossoms alternatin, on the sides, with a gorizontal wine glass motif. Sides overcast in brown wool, ends finished with short warp threads. Ghiordes knot. Wool warp, wool woof, dyed red. Condition good.. Original from the Minneapolis Institute of Art.