Rare Matched Tribal Turkoman Silver, as earrings. These Rare Matched Tribal Silver rondels, set with marquise cut Carnelian, the favourite gemstone of Turkmenistan, were once part of a set of buttons on what would have been a most splendid Turkmeni robe, russet reds in colour and gorgeously embroidered. The polished stumps of the rings on the rear of the rondels, by which they were sewn onto the garment, are plainly visible in the last of the gallery images above.
Turkmenistan has a style in Silver work unlike anything out of anywhere around it, or anywhere else, for that matter; it owes nothing to any of the Stans to its east, Uzbekistan etc, which have all been heavily influenced by Chinese culture; owes very little to its Afghan southern neighbour, whose influencers have traditionally been Persia to its west and India to its east; owes nothing to its other southern neighbour, Persia, separated as they are by a vast expanse of very inhospitable terrain.

The Turkmeni style in Silver work is spare, distinctively strong in form. Carnelian, very often cut marquise as in the above Rare Matched Tribal pair, is virtually the only gemstone type used in Turkmeni ornamental Silver.
The Turkmeni silversmith holds tradition dear, and still, in the 2000s, creates in the same traditional forms of a century, two centuries, ago. The obvious age of the above Rare Matched Tribal pair cannot be replicated, but a Turkmeni artesan in Silver can still, today, whether in Kabul or Peshawar or Bangkok, produce the amazing gilded Silver cuffs that created such a sensation back in the 1960s.