Victorian cameo brooch/pendant with locket depicting Cupid and Bacchus Stomp Grapes, Autumn after Thorvaldsen by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Victorian cameo brooch/pendant with locket depicting Cupid and Bacchus Stomp Grapes, Autumn after Thorvaldsen by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Victorian cameo brooch/pendant with locket depicting Cupid and Bacchus Stomp Grapes, Autumn after Thorvaldsen by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Victorian cameo brooch/pendant with locket depicting Cupid and Bacchus Stomp Grapes, Autumn after Thorvaldsen by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Victorian cameo brooch/pendant with locket depicting Cupid and Bacchus Stomp Grapes, Autumn after Thorvaldsen by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Victorian cameo brooch/pendant with locket depicting Cupid and Bacchus Stomp Grapes, Autumn after Thorvaldsen by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Victorian cameo brooch/pendant with locket depicting Cupid and Bacchus Stomp Grapes, Autumn after Thorvaldsen by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Victorian cameo brooch/pendant with locket depicting Cupid and Bacchus Stomp Grapes, Autumn after Thorvaldsen by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Victorian cameo brooch/pendant with locket depicting Cupid and Bacchus Stomp Grapes, Autumn after Thorvaldsen by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Victorian cameo brooch/pendant with locket depicting Cupid and Bacchus Stomp Grapes, Autumn after Thorvaldsen by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Victorian cameo brooch/pendant with locket depicting Cupid and Bacchus Stomp Grapes, Autumn after Thorvaldsen by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Victorian cameo brooch/pendant with locket depicting Cupid and Bacchus Stomp Grapes, Autumn after Thorvaldsen by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Victorian cameo brooch/pendant with locket depicting Cupid and Bacchus Stomp Grapes, Autumn after Thorvaldsen by Onbekende Kunstenaar
Victorian cameo brooch/pendant with locket depicting Cupid and Bacchus Stomp Grapes, Autumn after Thorvaldsen by Onbekende Kunstenaar

Victoriaanse camee broche/hanger met medaillon met afbeelding van Cupido en Bacchus Stomp Druiven, h 1880

Onbekende Kunstenaar

Cameo
€ 3.450

Adin Fine Antique Jewellery

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    Antique jewelry object group
    brooch and pendant with locket in the back

    Condition
    very good condition
    more info on our condition scale

    Country of origin
    Unknown for the jewel itself but from the cameo it is not unlikely that it has been made in Italy

    Style
    Victorian - Victorian decorative arts refers to the style of decorative arts during the Victorian era. The Victorian era is known for its eclectic revival and interpretation of historic styles and the introduction of cross-cultural influences from themiddle east and Asia in furniture, fittings, and Interior decoration. Victorian design is widely viewed as having indulged in a regrettable excess of ornament. The Arts and Crafts movement, the aesthetic movement, Anglo-Japanese style, and Art Nouveaustyle have their beginnings in the late Victorian era.
      -  See also: Victorian
    more info on styles

    Style specifics
    The Romantic Victorian Period - Experts divide the reign of Queen Victoria, also called The Victorian era (1837 - 1901) in to three periods of about twenty years each; The Romantic Victorian Period (1837 - 1860), The Grand Victorian Period (1860 -1880), and the Late or Aesthetic Victorian Period (1880 - 1901).

    We consider this to be of the Romantic Victorian Period. This period covers the coronation of Victoria as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and her marriage to King Albert and their love, their devotion to their marriage and to their country are thesources of inspiration for this period. The jewels of this period are made of intricate carvings, special techniques where the enamel is subtly worked. These techniques allowed to give the jewel a certain opulence with less precious metal needed. Asprecious metals were really rare at that time. Highly favored (semi-) precious stones in this period are amethyst, coral, garnets, seed pearls and turquoises. The connotation is obviously sentimental, symbolic and romantic with reminiscent Gotic and/orRenaissance patterns and an abundant use of motifs like anchors, birds, branches, crosses, hearts and snakes.

    Period
    ca. 1880
    Events & facts of this era, poetry of this era, fashion of this era.

    Source of inspiration
    After Thorvaldsen's relief that he made around 1810 depicting Cupid and Bacchus stomping grapes, see also pictures for the original relief as it can be seen in The Thorvaldsen Museum inventory number A413

    Material
    18K yellow gold (touchstone tested)
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    Technique
    Cameo is a method of carving, or an item of jewellery or vessel made in this manner. It features a raised (positive) relief image. There are three main materials for Cameo carving; Shells or Agate (called a Hardstone cameo), and glass. Cameos can beproduced by setting a carved relief, such as a portrait, onto a background of a contrasting colour. This is called an assembled cameo. Alternately, a cameo can be carved directly out of a material with integral layers or banding, such as (banded) agateor layered glass, where different layers have different colours. Sometimes dyes are used to enhance these colours. Cameos are often worn as jewellery. Stone cameos of great artistry were made in Greece dating back as far as the 6th century BC. They werevery popular in Ancient Rome, and one of the most famous stone cameos from this period is the Gemma Claudia made for the Emperor Claudius. The technique has since enjoyed periodic revivals, notably in the early Renaissance, and again in the 17th, 18thand 19th centuries.

    Precious stones
    One cameo and ninenatural half seed pearls

    Birthstones
    Pearl is the birthstone (or month stone) for June.
    more info on birthstones

    Hallmarks
    No trace.
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    Dimensions
    3,14 cm (1,24 inch) x 4,85 cm (1,91 inch)
    see picture with a ruler in millimeters and inches

    Weight
    16,40 gram (10,55 dwt)

    Adin Reference Nº
    21130-0149

    Copyright photography
    Adin, fine antique jewellery

    Sources
    Book: Berthel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) by Stefano Grandesso (ISBN 9788836619122) - page 104 for a picture of the bas relief

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  • Over kunstenaar

    Het kan voorkomen dat een kunstenaar of maker onbekend is.

    Voor sommige werken is het niet te bepalen door wie het gemaakt is of dat het is gemaakt door (een groep) ambachtslieden. Voorbeelden zijn beelden uit de Oudheid, meubels, spiegels of handtekeningen die vaak niet duidelijk of leesbaar zijn. Maar ook sommige werken zijn helemaal niet gesigneerd.

    Ook kunt u de volgende beschrijving vinden:

    •"Toegeschreven aan …." waarschijnlijk een werk van de kunstenaar maar niet zeker of gedeeltelijk

    •“Atelier van ….” of werkplaats van” een werk uitgevoerd in het atelier of atelier van de kunstenaar, eventueel onder zijn toezicht

    •“Cirkel van ….” een werk uit de periode van de kunstenaar die zijn invloed laat zien, nauw verbonden met de kunstenaar maar niet noodzakelijkerwijs zijn leerling

    •“Stijl van ….” of  “Volger van ….” een werk uitgevoerd in de stijl van de kunstenaar, maar niet noodzakelijk door een leerling; kan eigentijds of bijna eigentijds zijn

    •“Wijze van ….” een werk in de stijl van de kunstenaar maar van latere datum

    •"Na …." een kopie (van welke datum dan ook) van een werk van de kunstenaar

    •“Getekend…”,  “Gedateerd….”  of  “Ingeschreven” dan is het werk gesigneerd/ gedateerd/ ingeschreven door de kunstenaar. De toevoeging van een vraagteken duidt op een element van twijfel

    •"Met handtekening ...", "Met datum ...", "Met opschrift..." of “Draagt signatuur/datum/opschrift” dan is de handtekening/datum/opschrift toegevoegd door iemand anders dan de kunstenaar

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