An antique Kashan garden of Paradise, silk rug, c.1890, a Shah Abbas field of predominately red & blue curvilinear floral forms on a cream ground centre & border, with depictions of a deer in each of the lower corners, two guards to the border, hand knotted silk, 138 x 218 cm. Other Notes: Kashan city in Iran has been a creative centre of silk production since the Safavid Dynasty (1501-1736) from which this rug derives it's name