Victorian Coral Bacchante Cameo Suggested Drop Earrings On a 16 inch 18k

On a 16 inch 18k gold chain

Pierced gallery with geometric design elements

Fashioned in 14k white gold

straight Baguette cut diamonds measuring approx

Each friction back earring contains a prong set

Victorian Coral Bacchante Cameo Suggested Drop Earrings On a 16 inch 18kCentering 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