Necklace (part of a set)
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The necklace incorporates openwork medallions. The lowest is after the famous "Marlborough Gem" showing the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, copied by Wedgwood, among others.
Images of cameos proliferated on objects of all sorts during the age of Neoclassicism. Some were copies, some inventions, but all owed their origins to Greco-Roman antiquity. By implication, these adaptations underscored the owner's erudition and sober good taste. The owner might be rich or humble. Pottery such as Wedgwood's, for example, made enough use of cameos to satisfy all comers.
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