Consulting my copy of Uwe Jourdan's "Turkoman," I found that my contemporary piece is a close copy of the "jewelry" asmalyk that is Plate 193. This piece has "open-top" palmettes in the field. Date estimated at 18th century.

Across the page is another asmalyk with both jewelry and a wedding procession at the top and what may be two different varieties of "open-top" palmette in the field. One seems upside down.

Apparently, used quite widely in different varieties. I shared an image of a white ground Uzbek piece with Daniel recently that also seems to have something similar used as its major field device.

Regards,

R. John Howe