Victorian Coral Bacchante Cameo rose gold centering an opal measuring app

centering an opal measuring app

oxidized silver chain

Pendant is 15mm wide

with two seed pearls* measuring app

fashioned in silver topped gold

Victorian Coral Bacchante Cameo rose gold centering an opal measuring appCentering a carved coral cameo measuring approx. 30 x 21mm, depicting a Bacchante, with beaded gold border, fashioned in 18k yellow gold. Circa 1880. Bacchantes, known as Maenads in Greek mythology, were the female followers of Bacchus (or the Roman Dionysus), the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, theatre and religious ecstasy. They are usually represented as worked into a state of ecstatic frenzy through a