Victorian Coral Bacchante Cameo rose gold set with eight Round Brilliant

set with eight Round Brilliant cut diamonds weighing approx

fashioned in silver topped gold

oxidized silver chain

centering an opal measuring app

Victorian Coral Bacchante Cameo rose gold set with eight Round BrilliantCentering 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