Victorian Shell Cameo Brooch — Hebe Feeding the Eagle of Zeus, Sterling Silver Frame, c.1860–1880
$275.00
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Victorian Shell Cameo Brooch — Hebe Feeding the Eagle of Zeus, Sterling Silver Frame, c.1860–1880
$275.00
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A large Victorian shell cameo of one of the great Grand Tour subjects: Hebe, goddess of youth and cupbearer to the gods of Olympus, feeding the eagle of Zeus. She kneels at a garlanded altar among the clouds, pouring nectar from her jug into a patera as the great eagle bends his head to drink, wings spread behind her.
The cameo is hand-carved in high relief from a single bullmouth shell — cream carving standing against the shell's peach-orange ground — in the Italian carving tradition of Torre del Greco, whose workshops supplied the cameos carried home from the Grand Tour. The carving is fine and deep throughout: individually worked eagle feathers, flowing classical drapery, the garlanded altar and the cloud base all cut by hand.
It sits in its period English sterling silver frame with a twisted rope edge, open at the back so the shell shows through, and fastens with the original tube hinge and C-clasp.
Condition: the shell carries an old glue repair on its underside, visible in the photographs — an honest, stable old repair to the reverse that does not touch the carved face. Approx. 2⅜ inches wide. Pre-owned.
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