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Under this flow four water channels forming a cross with red and blue zigzagged lines and spotted fish.  On either side of the channels is a narrow green border with a dark meander and red leaves and above abd below the channels are small sections of another 'island'medallion.  In all four corners there are six plots of garden in three rows: one plot has a chenar tree, another has an 8-pointed star and they alternate. The four plots closest to the centre have white grounds, followed by a blue ground but the other two rows have red grounds.Four brown trees nearest to the centre 'grow' out of the island; other trees are green.  Each plot is bordered along two sides by a dark blue band containing shrubs growing alongside the water channels.\r\nMain Border: dark blue ground with inward facing cypress trees alternating with shrubs predominantly white or red.\r\nInner border: white ground with a dark meander with red leaves\r\nOuter Border: incomplete along the upper edge.  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Erdmann, <i>Oriental Carpets</i> (Fishguard: Crosby Press): pl. 125; F. Spuhler, <i>Oriental Carpets in the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin</i>(London: Faber & Faber 1978): cat. no. 61; F. Spuhler, <i>Islamic Carpets and Textiles in the Keir Collection</i>(London: Faber & Faber 1978): cat. no. 56A."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Christine Klose, \"Betrachtungen zu nordwestpersischen Gartenteppichen des 18. 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