A vintage Persian Shiraz pictorial rug. What complex and obscure iconography! On a red ground is posed a maiden astride a seven-headed beast; a simurgh with an enormous branching, feathered tail; a snarling dragon; four corner lions; four grotesque masks; and a diminutive human figure. The figures were probably cobbled together from various pictorial sources. The leafy segments of the ivory border has been reworked into stylized dragons.