A RENAISSANCE REVIVAL PEARL, ENAMEL AND GEM-SET PENDANT

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A RENAISSANCE REVIVAL PEARL, ENAMEL AND GEM-SET PENDANT
The polychrome enamel and baroque pearl figure of Echidna, clutching a blue enamel snake, seated on a diamond and enamel base suspending three drop-shaped pearls, to the surmount of similar design with a pearl cloud pierced by a gold arrow, the reverse set with rubies, circa 1860, 12.5 cm. high

来源

Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910-1990), and thence by descent

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拍品专文

Echidna, attended by a dolphin and winged sea-serpent, floats on the surface of a ribonned and pearl enriched bracket of Roman acanthus evoking heroic virtue. Echidna the chimerical armoured and snake bearing 'mother of all monsters', a nymph with 'draco' serpent body, who 'dies not nor grows old', is imagined as guardian of the deep cave Arima in Hesiod's 'Theogony' and Homer's 'Iliad'.