The director of the State Museum of Turkmenistan, Meretgeldy Chariyev, who is taking part in the international congress "Cultural Heritage of Uzbekistan - the Basis of the New Renaissance" in Samarkand, presented a report on "Khorezm Jewellery".
According to the newspaper Neutral Turkmenistan, it is a small part of a rich collection from the treasury of the Khiva Khanate, which was divided between Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan in 1928.
The Ashgabat holdings include a series of 67 items of jewellery from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The base of the women's items is a pentagonal silver box, the outside of which is decorated with a scattering of small turquoises, and from the sides and bottom of which hang a cascade of diamond-shaped coral pendants. The men's jewellery includes two belt pendants made of silver with light gilding.
Experts say that the manufacturing technique is similar to that used in other Central Asian regions.
Eziz Boyarov
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