Rare Saryk Kapunuk

Rare Saryk Kapunuk
110 x 81 cm (3' 7" x 2' 8")
Turkmenistan, second half 19th century
Condition: very good, full pile, minor small repairs
Warp: wool, weft: wool, pile: wool, silk and cotton

Perfectly in original condition preserved Saryk Kapunuk with full colored fringes and high-quality pile materials in wool, silk and cotton. Color publication in Rippon Boswell auction catalogue of June 2015 No.87, lot 113. Originally offered and sold by auctioneer Edelmann, New York in a sale in the 1970 decade.
Also published in an exhibition catalogue of the German dealer Franz Bausback: „Susani, Stickereien aus Mittelasien", Ausstellung vom 3. Bis 13. April 1981, page 63 as announcement of a future Bausback exhibition with the title "Knüpfarbeiten aus Orientalischen Nomadenzelten", 18.11. bis 19.12.1981".
Saryk kapunuks are generally very rare weavings. They are recorded in two different designs: similar to Tekke kapunuk design, see for example AAC I, September 2013, lot 150 and comparable to design of Salor kapunuk. Of this Salor type only two specimens are known in the relevant literature: The Edelmann-Bausback-Rippon-Boswell piece and the kapunuk in A.A. Bogolyubov, "Carpets of Central Asia", in the 1973 edition by Jon Thompson shown on the soft cover and as No.5.
Thereafter also published in "Oriental Rugs from Atlantic Collections", Philadelphia ICOC 1996, No. 137. The Rippon Boswell kapunuk being the later piece, second half to end 19th century, a period when Saryk weavings developed a darker palette with lavish use of ruby red silk, but still continuing with the traditional Turkish symmetrical knotting structure.
Many weavings with these characteristics in all sizes from main carpets to small bags, however as kapunuk only the piece discussed here has so far surfaced.

Estimate: € 10000 - 15000