Victorian Coral Bacchante Cameo fall collection With tops set with round

With tops set with round brilliant cut diamonds weighing app

Length 1 5/16

Fashioned from sterling silver

5mm and a pearl grasped in its talons measuring app

Bacchantes

Victorian Coral Bacchante Cameo fall collection With tops set with roundCentering 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