Berlin Iron Cupid & Psyche Earrings gypsy rings shield-shaped panel of amber

shield-shaped panel of amber

gold granulation around the garnet

One flanking stone has a small chip at one end

handmade and quite beautifully worked - likely Italian

Berlin Iron Cupid & Psyche Earrings gypsy rings shield-shaped panel of amberOnce upon a time there were three princesses. The eldest two were lovely enough to be admired everywhere, but the youngest was so entirely beautiful that many in the kingdom gave up the cult of Aphrodite and worshipped the young girl instead and her name was Psyche. Aphrodite, as a vengeful and jealous goddess, could bear no rivalry so summoned her son, Eros (or Cupid), and told him to use one of his arrows to make Psyche fall in love with a pig. Ever