Number (sold)
Type Workshop
Material Silk
Style Medallion
Origin Senneh
Size 200 x 140
Age 1850
This is one of only two all silk Senneh rugs I have seen. The other lies in the Malek Museum and was formerly in the collection of Haj Hossein Malek Al Tojjar, the wealthiest person in late Qajar Persia and the greatest Persian carpet collector of all time. Senneh rugs were occasionally woven on haft rang (multicoloured rainbow) warps but almost always knotted with wool--except this. The border is a riot of vivacious colors, borrowing sunburst motifs from a well known group of Farahan rugs woven between 1830-1860. The field is unusually minimalist and abstract, plain woven in a very uncommon walnut brown which has partly oxidised. A museum quality artwork by all means.
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