Mythological Subjects

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See our: mythological jewelry.Subjects or figures derived from Greek or Roman mythology, sometimes used as a decorative motif on pendants or other articles of jewelry, e.g. Leda, Climon and Pera, Medusa, The Judgment of Paris,Hercules, Aphrodite, Amphitrite, Orpheus, Europa, and many Baroque Pearl jewels depicting tritons, nereids, sirens, centaurs, hippocampi, dragons, griffins etc.

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Mythological Subjects

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mythological jewelry Antwerp: Victorian enameled brooch, goddess Minerva

See our: mythological jewelry.Subjects or figures derived from Greek or Roman mythology, sometimes used as a decorative motif on pendants or other articles of jewelry, e.g. Leda, Climon and Pera, Medusa, The Judgment of Paris,Hercules, Aphrodite, Amphitrite, Orpheus, Europa, and many Baroque Pearl jewels depicting tritons, nereids, sirens, centaurs, hippocampi, dragons, griffins etc.

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References

From: An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry, autor: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson