Ring with Cupid Chasing a Butterfly, Venetian,18th century, Agate, Gold [1280 x 1319]
by Mysterious_Sorcery
Ring with Cupid Chasing a Butterfly, Venetian,18th century, Agate, Gold [1280 x 1319]
by Mysterious_Sorcery
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This ring uses naturally occurring color variations in a slice of agate to create a miniature relief of Cupid chasing a butterfly, which represents the human soul. Other neoclassical artists also represented this theme, perhaps most famously the marble by Antoine-Denis Chaudet, which is in the Louvre in Paris. The cameo is set in a pierced gold ring.