featuring faceted rubies and cabochon turquoise measuring approx

Length 17 inches

1/2 x 1/2 inch

5mm and weighing app

centering an opal measuring app

Victorian Coral Bacchante Cameo heirloom snakes featuring faceted rubies and cabochonCentering 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