In the medallion (75 cm in diameter) there is a flower-leaf ornament against a grey-blue background. The geometrical pattern of the ornament is built of circular arcs of the medallion diameter with the foci on its circumference dividing it into six parts. The intersecting arcs form a “flower” with six “petals”. The opposite “petals” are of the same colour: the top and bottom are light pink (traces) with remnants of a cinnabar stroke in the middle of the bottom one; the top left and bottom right are yellow (ochre) with dark strokes; the top right and bottom left are blue (azurite). Between the “petals” are “flowers” with a large rounded core and three symmetrically embedded “peas” of the background between the three elongated “petals”, the opposite “flowers” are of the same colour: the top left and bottom right are blue; the top right and bottom left are yellow with dark shading of the bases by the medallion border and strokes in the “petals”; the side ones retain traces of pink and cinnabar pigments. All the colour elements of the ornament including the wide border (3.5 cm) between the two thin ones have a white outline (white chalk ground). In the centre of the medallion and on its circumference there are traces of the leg of a compass. Two short grooves in the upper half of the lower “petal”. Light green cloth folds are painted over the ornament. Condition: surface cracks all over the medallion, minor mechanical damage. Nearly complete loss of pink and cinnabar pigments and shading; considerable loss of blue pigment and cloth folds. The yellow “petals” and the bottom left “flower” are in good shape. Conservation: 2000
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