Mosaic brooch with bust of Bacchus

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Jewellery. Brooch. Of slightly convex oval form with a pin fastening across the back. In the middle is a bust of Bacchus in profile to left, wearing a vine wreath on his head, worked in coloured mosaic reserved in a gold ground. On the gold rim there are four applied gold beads separating a repeating motif of a circular cabochon flanked by kite-shaped motifs: on the right and left, a green cabochon blanked by red and white kite-shapes, and at the top and bottom, a red cabochon flanked by blue and white kite-shapes. Gold and silver, and gold and blue, green, pink, red, white and shades of brown micro-mosaic, width 3.8 cm, length 4.4 cm, 1860-1870. Italian. Classical Revival.

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Accession Number: M.74-1983
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Photographer name: Image Library; Fitzwilliam Museum
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19th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC Bacchus brooch cabochon Classical Revival Dionysos Dionysus Fitz_AA gem gemstones gods gold headdress heads Italian jewellery jewelry leaves male mosaic mythological mythology oval portraits precious stones profile silver vine leaves vine-wreath wreath

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