Floral carpet (dark blue ground). Transitional type, 18th century, Khanates Period, Azerbaijan.  Türk ve İslam Eserleri Museum, Istanbul. Acquired 1912. inv. no 28  (1908) from Yeni Camii (New Mosque), Sivas, Turkey. 240 x 400 cm. published Serare Yetkin's "Early Caucasian carpets in Turkey", plate 36.

Pattern on three axes. Central axis: two dark blue hooked octagons and a segmented star. At the four corners of the star are two large flowers, yellow and red, with radiating palmettes and small purple, yellow and green flowers. Side axes (cut by the border): octagons in two shades of yellow and hooked geometrical palmettes. The central axis octagons contain green and light fragmented leaves outlined in brown, the star contain a dark yellow lozenge with a surrounding band with red and yellow dots. A yellow octagon at the end of the centre axis contains a dark yellow hooked lozenge. Geometrical flowers in the field.