Antique gold necklace with 24 niccolo intaglios

Description

Antique gold necklace with 24 “niccolo” / two layered onyx / intaglios. England ca 1820. The images of the intaglios are of animals ; hunting dog, dolphin, swan, butterfly, stag etc and images of antiquity : Eros on a lion, pegasus, the Lyra of Apollo, the double helix, Ovid’s doves.

In original box