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Lot Essay
In contrast to the floral nature of the preceding lot, this is much more geometric. This border is found on a number of very impressive prayer rugs including two in the Arthur D, Jenkins Collection (Cootner, Cathryn: The Jenkins Collection; Flat-woven Textiles, Washington D.C., 1981, nos.8 and 9, pp.48-51). Overall field designs with this border are rarer; an example in a private German Collection has very fine overall chevrons formed of minute flowers (Volkmann, Martin: Alte Orientteppiche, ausgewählte Stücke deutscher Privatsammlungen, Munich, 1978, no.47, p.122).
In his book on kilims Yanni Petsopoulos separates the group of kilims with the border seen on the present one from the other more traditionally drawn Senneh kilims, preferring just to refer to them as West Persian "Kurdish" rather than specifying the Senneh region (Kilims, Fribourg, 1979, pp.300-302). Cathryn Cootner (op.cit, pp.25-6) concludes there is not enough evidence conclusively to separate the two groups.
In his book on kilims Yanni Petsopoulos separates the group of kilims with the border seen on the present one from the other more traditionally drawn Senneh kilims, preferring just to refer to them as West Persian "Kurdish" rather than specifying the Senneh region (Kilims, Fribourg, 1979, pp.300-302). Cathryn Cootner (op.cit, pp.25-6) concludes there is not enough evidence conclusively to separate the two groups.