Handmade goddess Demeter necklace.
The cameo represents Demeter (Ceres in Roman), the goddess of Harvest and Fertility of the Earth. She presided also over the sanctity of marriage, the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death.
Demeter's virgin daughter Persephone was abducted to the underworld by Hades. Demeter searched for her ceaselessly, preoccupied with her loss and her grief. The seasons halted; living things ceased their growth, then began to die. Faced with the extinction of all life on earth, Zeus sent his messenger Hermes to the underworld to bring Persephone back.
Hades agreed to release her, but gave her a pomegranate. When she ate the pomegranate seeds, she was bound to him for one third of the year, either the dry Mediterranean summer, when plant life is threatened by drought, or the autumn and winter.
 
AVAILABLE IN:
  • Gold Bronze: jeweler gold bronze pendant and 14k gold filled chain, 
  • Gold plated: 14k gold plated over jeweler gold bronze pendant and 14k gold filled chain,
 
Details:
• Handmade cameo reproduction. 
• I made my own mold from a 17th c. Victorian cameo.
• Solid jeweler gold bronze charm. 
• The charm is 3/4".
• Soldered eyelet on top.
• Signed in the back by artist
• 14k gold filled chain 
• The thin chain is 1.4mm.
• Gold filled has 100 times more gold than plated thus does not rub or peel off.
• Nickel free
 
Bronze has been valued since antiquity for its strength and warm, golden tone. Over time, it naturally oxidizes—much like silver—creating a rich patina that adds depth and character. Its original luster can be easily restored with a jeweler’s polishing cloth as needed.