Victorian Coral Bacchante Cameo EARRINGS fashioned in silver-topped 14k yellow

fashioned in silver-topped 14k yellow gold

fashioned in satin finished 18k white gold

2mm and three Swiss cut diamonds measuring approx

It measures approx

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Victorian Coral Bacchante Cameo EARRINGS fashioned in silver-topped 14k yellowCentering 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