A wool pile of symmetric knots on a wool foundation. Signed “Hakib”. This amusing rustic ruglet features two affronted, chagrined red lions with upraised tails on a beige ground. The design appears to be distantly related to the lion rugs of the Qashqai people of southwestern Persia. A single brown-black border displays tapered and floating quincunxes. The wide wool-overcast edges are original. The piece was originally made as a yastik, or cushion cover.