Posted 10 years ago
Bluboi
(103 items)
Shell cameo set in original fitted case
Circa 1830-1840
Necklace, brooch and day-and-night earrings, cameos set in high carat gold. Cameos on necklace from left to right:
- Omphale (queen of Lydia, lover to Hercules with the pelt of the Nemean lion on her head)
- Eros and Psyche
- Victory
- Cameosleuth provided information below, so changing my information to: Sleeping Endymion, his dog warning him of the approaching goddess
- Hercules (punished by Zeus and made slave to Omphale)
Earrings: butterflies, symbolic of Psyche
Brooch: Medusa
Earrings are 3 3/8 inches long and about 1 inch at the widest. Brooch is 1 7/8 by 1 5/8. Necklace is about 18 inches.
Largest cameo on necklace is 2 1/8 by 2 inches. Smallest cameo is 1 3/4 by 1 1/4.
Photo of the back: dark conch shells are Bull's Mouth and the lighter ones are Horned Helmet.
What an amazing suite of Camei!!!
I am speechless (nearly!)
My good goodness how stunningly beautiful is this!....many thanks for sharing it.....:-)
Woooooooow! Impressive!!
A full set! And cased!! And amazing quality!!!
Wonderfull :-)
You are right Idcloisonne, this is A POST !
Beyond lovely set!
This is amazing!
wow - this is enchanting!
It's a sleuth strike. The cameo of the Dying Adonis is described by Raspe, in his catalogue of the Tassie impressions, as the Sleeping Endymion, his dog warning him of the approaching goddess, by Marchant, #2162. :)
Super! Thank you Cameosleuth!
I'm in love!!!!
Wowwwww! I'm out of words.