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A Victorian cameo brooch depicting Helios chasing the dawn, the shell cameo finely and deeply carved and representing the Greek sun god in his quadriga, drawn by galloping white horses and ascending the vault of heaven to bring light to the world, preceded by a flying putto bearing Aurora's torch and accompanied by dancing maidens, all on billowing clouds; the large oval cameo in a collet held by open scrolling quadrants with finer detailed scrolls at the compass points, yellow metal tests for gold, length 7.3cm

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