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in The Garden of Adin
(Click the picture to get to this antique Victorian brooch)
in The Garden of Adin
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(Click the picture to get to this antique Victorian brooch)
Antique Victorian jewelry brooch with stone cameo angel, diamonds and pearls.
A majestical piece of antique jewelry we have here. A skillful engraved sardonic hard stone cameo representing a cute little cupid in a shell on a cloud blowing the trumpet or whistling the flute. Surrounded by a wreath fully embellished with rose cut diamonds and natural pearls. A typical example of high-class jewelry made in the Victorian Grand Period.
Victorian Grand Period Jewelry (1860 - 1885) is often dramatic and includes re-interpretations of many ancient patterns and styles. The use of cupids go back to the Greek who called them Erotes, winged gods of love. Their number was varied: Eros (Love) and Himeros (Desire), Pothos (Passion) and the twins Eros and Anteros (Love reciprocated).
But one cupid or the other.... this sure is a love-ly brooch.
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