Victorian Gold Cameo Earrings Man and Woman Sapphire This antique Art Nouveau ruby

This antique Art Nouveau ruby and diamond dragonfly brooch was handcrafted in France around 1900

8 mm and they graduate down in size to the smallest at 16

This sovereign case is a relic from a past where things were made with love and care

It would take another 50 years for cameras and photographs to become truly wide-spread and another 140 or so years before they became something we all carry in our pockets all the time

Victorian Gold Cameo Earrings Man and Woman Sapphire This antique Art Nouveau rubyAn art form handed down from the early Greeks and Romans, the cameo regained popularity in the fifteenth and sixteenth century revivals of Europe. Queen Victorias love of cameos combined with the burgeoning middle class of the Industrial revolution brought cameos of all kinds to Victorian England. These wonderful cameo earrings feature classical profiles, one a man and one a woman, the two facing each other. It's most likely that these two are Zeus