Pair of teardrop-shaped earrings of dark blue jasper with white jasper bas relief, each earring suspended on a short chain set with two jargoons (faux stones) and hanging from a round dark-blue jasper medallion with white jasper bas relief in a pinwheel pattern and with a jargoon in the center, with gold screw back, the drops each with stiff leaf pattern above and beaded swags below, in the middle of each a series of classical figures comprised of .1) "Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion"; "Terpsichore"; "Hercules supporting the world"; and "Diana with stag"; and .2) "Hercules strangling the Nemean Lion"; "classical male figure"; "Hercules supporting the world"; and "classical male and female figures."

Pair of Earrings

Wedgwood

1790/1800

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