A YUZUK TURKMEN CARNELIAN-SET SILVER RING
Turkmenistan or Kazakhstan, Central Asia, first half 20th century

With plain, tapering, ogival silver shank, the oval bezel with a high collet set with a red carnelian bead, the base of the bezel decorated with a triple rope-twisted silver wire surmounting a band of granulation.

2.8cm x 2cm x 1.8cm

Ring size 58 / 8

1.80cm diameter

11gr.

For further reference: Natalya Sychova, Traditional Jewellery from Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan, 1984, pp. 114 - 15; and Hermann Rudolph, Der Turkmenenschmuck: Sammlung Kurt Gull, 1985, p. 251, cat. 39. The ring in Rudolph's publication appears to be part of a larger hand ornament, covering the full hand with carnelian-encrusted rings in every finger and a large silver plaque on the back of the hand.