Early Victorian "Mars" Cameo Brooch signet ring Eight-cut diamonds

Eight-cut diamonds

A striking robin's egg blue enamelled bangle dating from the latter half of the 19th Century

perfectly accentuating their gorgeous facets and icy-white colour

It dates from the 1940s

Early Victorian "Mars" Cameo Brooch signet ring Eight-cut diamondsDATE: Victorian, c. 1850 Mars, god of war (and also an agricultural guardian, apparently). This superb early Victorian cameo depicts Mars with shield and spear, wearing a magnificent helmet adorned with a griffin (the legendary beast with the head and wings of an eagle, and body of a lion). The son of Jupiter and Juno, Mars, unlike his Greek counterpart Ares, held an important and dignified position within the Roman pantheon. Whereas the Greeks saw