Superb Early 19th C Cameo of Greco Roman Symbols locket The wealthy sometimes referred to

The wealthy sometimes referred to their pinchbeck as “traveling jewelry

This variety of chalcedony is most likely chrysocolla due to its blue hue

With floating pearls creating a sensual ruffle around the golden construction

pilgrimages (read: medallion collection missions

religious or otherwise

Superb Early 19th C Cameo of Greco Roman Symbols locket The wealthy sometimes referred toSome girls like flowers, some prefer diamonds and better yet, some prefer bouquets of the Greco Roman Symbology variety, rendered in shell, enthroned in a halo of glowing pearls. I may, in fact, be one of the latter. This rare cameo boasts the symbols of four of the Twelve Olympians, as they pantheon of major Greco Roman gods was called. Very much in the way that a bouquet could be read to construct a sentence of sentiment in the 19th century, the