Large Scale Victorian Cameo Brooch Featuring Pliny's Doves April 4th After she was married

After she was married

these charming pieces rose in popularity during the mid to late 19th Century

Featuring five wildly saturated emeralds

and his wife Alexandra of Denmark were a breath of fresh air to fashion at the close of the 1800s

locket hangs at 21" length

Large Scale Victorian Cameo Brooch Featuring Pliny's Doves April 4th After she was marriedPliny's Doves are a popular motif for cameos every collection boasts at least one roundel depiction of the fated four fowl scene, but what on earth does it mean? Pliny was, for all intents and purposes, an ancient lifestyle blogger, reporting (in his epic work Natural Histories) on popular works of the ancient world, regretfully dying when he tried to take a selfie at Mount Vesuvius (no really, he went to report on the eruption at Pompeii and passed