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Carpets
Sale: N08038 | Location: New York
Auction Dates: Session 1: Thu, 16 Dec 04 10:15 AM
LOT 10
A SARYK MAIN CARPET, SOUTHWEST TURKESTAN,
5,000—7,000 USD
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium:
9,600 USD
MEASUREMENTS
approximately 9ft. 7in. by 7ft. 11in. (2.92 by
2.41m.)
DESCRIPTION
early 19th century
Condition Note: reweaves, holes, foldwear,
machine-selvaged on all four sides, minor
repiling,
CATALOGUE NOTE
Saryk main carpets with the octagonal Termirjin
or omurga major gul as found here are rare, with
only around a dozen known according to
"Auction Price Guide," Hali, issue 114,
p. 135. The present carpet shares Memling minor
guls and a cruciform motif border with even fewer
examples: see Munkacsi, Kurt and d'Heurle, David,
Bigger is Better: Main Carpets of the Turkmen,
(cd), 2003, pl. 2 also Christie's London, October
19, 1995 lot 461; Rippon Boswell, November 20,
1999 lot 98; Rippon Boswell, November 12, 1994,
lot 103; Andrews, P.A., et al., Wie Blumen in der
Wüste, Hamburg, 1993, no. 104 previously
Sotheby's New York, May 30, 1987, lot 40; and
Loges, Werner, Turkoman Tribal Rugs, London,
1980, pl. 24. Possibly unique to the carpet
offered here is the column of complete Memling
guls at each side of the field. In the examples
previously cited, the guls are cut in half along
the edges of the field.
Seen on www.Sothebys.com
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