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Standing in a blue shell, Aphrodite Anadyomene wrings seawater from her hair. The pose was well known in antiquity, referring to the goddess’s birth from the sea, of which the deep blue color of the lapis lazuli is a visual metaphor. The harmony of…

This oxidized silver necklace shows a scene of a crusader taking leave of his lady, along with two page boys.