Cameo Necklace Brooch Ceres Antique Hand Beaded Shell Harvest Fertility Goddess

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Cameo Necklace Brooch Ceres, Antique Hand Carved Shell Demeter,The Goddess of the Harvest, Fertility w/ Wheat Stalks in Her Hair.
Ceres, Demeter, The Goddess of the Harvest and Fertility. with Wheat Stalks in Her Hair. DEMETER (CERES) A Hellenic goddess of sowing, cultivating, harvesting and the birth – death-rebirth cycle, the second child of Cronus and Rhea .
DEMETER : Greek Goddess of Agriculture & Grain "Ceres [Demeter] revived her own look . . . and crowned her hair with chaplets of corn, & wheat.
This cameo is truly special; she has wheat & corn in her hair.
I purchased this beautiful, exquisitely carved cameo loose. It is now set in ever tightening Peyote stitch of lustrous glass gold seed beads. Then I added filigree rays of a a larger gold metallic sparkle and shimmer bead. It is a pendant or brooch, wear either way.
She is embedded on beige felt, with an opening left in back for light to shine through. The last photo is as seen from the back.  Shell is varying in color from brown to white.
Cameo in setting measure 2 1/8" by 1 7/8". On Gold plated 18" fine chain.
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