SOLD Antique Carved Shell Cameo Pliny's Doves Brooch/Pendant chased detailed monkey on the front

detailed monkey on the front

Carved Hard Stone Cameo

with a realistically detailed buckle and a star-set rubies winking from its face

Referred to as "Mad Women" and the Nurses of Dionysus in ancient literature and myth

SOLD Antique Carved Shell Cameo Pliny's Doves Brooch/Pendant chased detailed monkey on the frontOne cameo subject that turns up regularly is known as Plinys Doves, because the lost original on which subsequent copies or recreations were based was described by the historian and polymath Pliny the Elder in his great work Natural History, under the section concerning pavements: There is a dove also, greatly admired, in the act of drinking and throwing the shadow of its head upon the water; while other birds are to be seen sunning and pluming