A QALAMKAR SOFREH Possibly Isfahan, Iran, 19th century The floor-spread banqueting cloth of fine white cotton, painted and printed in turkey red, sage, teal, and saffron with scrolling floral stems and birds around three star-burst floral circles symbolising dishes of food, each end with an elegant pair of flower-filled butis, the borders with Persian poetry in bold nasta'liqin cartouches, eulogising the generousity of the spread, three sides edges with bias-cut blue cotton, selvedges present, 475cm x 90.2cm.