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Vintage Freshwater Pearls & Cameo Necklace Depicting Psyche, c. 1985

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Vintage Freshwater Pearls & Cameo Necklace Depicting Psyche, c. 1985

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A beautiful young lady looks to the right: her rich, full hair curls over her forehead, head and neck, barely tamed by a ribbon. She is wearing a robe in the style of antiquity and, to everyone's surprise, delicate butterfly wings are growing out of her back! This is how she takes us into the realm of Greek mythology. It depicts Psyche, an ancient princess whose beauty was so great and famous that she aroused the jealousy of the goddess Venus. After some intrigue, she finally married Cupid, Venus' messenger of love, and became an immortal goddess. The butterfly as a symbol of the soul is her attribute, and this is how she found her way into art. The necklace presented here features a finely carved portrait of Psyche with a gold frame on its clasp. This is followed by six strands of elongated freshwater pearls, which are held apart at regular intervals by gold bars, so-called spacers. Thirty-four small octagonal diamonds enrich the necklace with additional light reflections. The necklace was created in the 1980s. The decade appreciated antiques and a romantic look to the past, and much jewellery was created in historical forms and also, as here, using historical techniques. The use of heavy gold and freshwater pearls, which only became available in the 1980s, is also typical of the period in which it was created.