A KONYA RUG

The drawing and colouring of this rug is very close to that of a longer rug in the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, dated to the eighteenth century, (Marilyn Jenkins: Islamic Art in the Kuwait National Museum, London, 1983, p.148). An almost identical example to that is in the Kirchheim Collection dated to circa 1800 (E. Heinrich Kirchheim et al.: Orient Stars, a Carpet Collection, London, 1993, pp.246-7). Another example in the Orient Stars Collection, dated to the 18th century, although with noticeably brighter colours, has a border which is almost identical to that of the present rug.