ITALIAN SET-GOLD& MICROMOSAIC EARRINGS & PENDANT/BROACH Start Price USD 8,950.00 Current Price USD 8,950.00 Time Left 5 hours 52 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, November 09, 2008 End Time Thursday, January 08, 2009 Location RISHON LE ZION, default See more about 'ITALIAN SET-GOLD& MICROMOSAIC EARRINGS & PENDANT/BROACH' Description HERE OFFERED FOR SALE THIS FANTASTIC ANTIQUE 19TH CENTURY ITALIAN  SET OF GOLD AND MICROMOSAIC ART EARRINGS AND PENDANT THAT CAN BE MADE ALSO TO A BROACH BY TAKING OFF THE HANGING RING . THEY ARE ALL MADE OF HIGH CARAT GOLD WITH HIGH QUALITY OF GOLDSMITH WORK IN THE ETRUSCAN AND WIRE WORK STYLE WITH FRAME OF BALLS AND IN CENTER VERY FINE MICROMOSAIC ART WITH MYTHOLOGY SCENES.ON THE BIG PENDANT WE SEE LEDA AND THE SWAN - PLEASE SEE THE STORY AFTER. ON BACK OF PENDANT AN OLD PHOTO OF THE FIRST OWNERS OF THE SET. ON THE EARRINGS WE SEE ANGELS EACH ONE FACING A DIFFERENT SIDE.THE PENDANT IS 3" (73MM) LONG 1.5" (37MM) WIDE AND 0.5" (12MM) THICK WITH THE PIN. WHEN MADE TO A BROACH AND TAKING OFF THE HANGING RING , THE BROACH BECOMES SHORTER  TO 2" (50MM) LONG.EACH EARRING IS 2" (50MM) LONG , 0.8" (20MM) WIDE AND 0.16" (4MM) THICK. TOTAL WEIGHT OF SET 2 OZ OR 62.8 GRAMS. CONDITION OF ALL PARTS -EXCELLENT. VERY RARELY FOUND SO PERFECT. THIS SET OF JEWELRY AND GOLDSMITH IS A REAL PEAK OF THIS ART , A REAL MUSEUM PIECE AND A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY SUCH A SET.BUYER WILL PAY $150.00 FOR INSURED REGISTERED AIR-MAIL AND HANDLING. I ACCEPT PAYMENT BY PAYPAL AND BANK WIRE TRANSFER.         In Greek mythology, Leda (Λήδα) was daughter of the Aetolian king Thestius, and wife of the king Tyndareus, of Sparta. Her myth gave rise to the popular motif in Renaissance and later art of Leda and the Swan. She was the mother of Helen of Troy, Clytemnestra, and Castor and Pollux. Leda was admired by Zeus, who raped her in the guise of a swan. As a swan, Zeus fell into her arms for protection from a pursuing eagle. Their consummation, on the same night as Leda lay with her husband Tyndareus, resulted in two eggs from which hatched Helen—later known as the beautiful Helen Of Troy, Clytemnestra, and Castor and Pollux (also known as the Dioscuri—also spelled Kastor and Polydeuces). Which children are the progeny of Tyndareus, the mortal king, and which are of Zeus, and are thus half-immortal, is not consistent among accounts, nor is which child hatched from which egg. The split is almost always half mortal, half divine, although the pairings do not always reflect the children's heritage pairings. Castor and Polydeuces are sometimes both mortal, sometimes both divine. One consistent point is that if only one of them is immortal, it is Polydeuces. Leda with the Swan, Museo del Prado In Homer's Iliad, Helen looks down from the walls of Troy and wonders why she does not see her brothers among the Achaeans. The narrator remarks that they are both already dead and buried back in their homeland of Lacedaemon, thus suggesting that at least in some early traditions, both were mortal. The consensus is that Helen and Polydeuces were the immortal children of Zeus, while Castor and Clytemnestra were the mortal children of Tyndareus. Leda also had other daughters by Tyndareus: Timandra, Phoebe, Philonoe. Leda, by Gustave Moreau Another account of the myth states that Nemesis was the mother of Helen, and was also impregnated by Zeus in the guise of a swan. A shepherd found the egg and gave it to Leda, who carefully kept it in a chest until the egg hatched. When the egg hatched, Leda adopted Helen as her daughter. Zeus also commemorated the birth of Helen by creating the constellation Cygnus, the Swan, in the sky. Leda and the swan and Leda and the egg were popular subjects in the ancient art. In the postclassical arts, it became a potent source of inspiration.   Place a Bid!