Victorian Coral Bacchante Cameo EARRINGS Centering an Oval faceted amethyst

Centering an Oval faceted amethyst measuring approx

fashioned in silver-topped 14k yellow gold

fashioned in satin finished 18k white gold

Special order - Allow six weeks for us to build your beautiful jewel

terminating in pearl drop

Victorian Coral Bacchante Cameo EARRINGS Centering an Oval faceted amethystCentering 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