A finely embroidered rectangular cover, probably Persian, early 19th century, worked on a light turquoise ground, and edged with colourful printed cotton, attached by hand, a 2 inch or 5 cm inner embroidered border with paisley boteh within undulating black, red and white lines worked to all four sides, colours including turquoise, red, green and pale lilac, next in towards the centre, a border of small cones in red and lilac, the very centre being plain, but all corners embroidered with boteh and at one end only there is a wide V shape worked with cones in a different design, possibly of directional significance relating to use? Backed with a red cotton printed with cream stars, approx. 19 inches or 48cm by 14.5 inches or 37cm