A wool pile of symmetric knots on a cotton foundation. With a few white cotton highlights, the straw-beige field shows Laila holding the love-addled Majnun beneath a thinly branched tree. Below runs a stream with a fish; in the foreground appear a stag, a monkey, and a rabbit; above are two facing, soaring doves. The scene is drawn from Nizami’s Laila and Majnun poetic romance. The border features conjoined calligraphic cartouches identifying the subject.