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Robert Sekulovich Fine Jewelry designs:
the MinorMasterPieces Collection
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and now for a closer look…
US $40 | P70 Roma pendant This pendant features the head of the goddess Roma, patroness and personification of the Roman Republic. Her iconography owes a lot to Greek portrayals of Athena, yet there is something unmistakably Roman about this deity. A few years later her image would be replaced by heads of the Emperors until the fall of the Roman Empire. |
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US $60 |
P90 Icarus pendant We see here Icarus, the son of the genius Dedalus who having built the Labyrinth in Crete for King Minos, once having crossed the king found himself, along with his son, imprisoned in it. Ever resourceful, he made two pairs of wings out of feathers and wax for them to escape with. Icarus is seen here tieing off his second wing having already put the first one on. Wise Dedalus reached safety on the island of Sicily, but, despite his father's warning not to--Icarus flew too high, so high that the sun melted the wax holding his wings together and he plumeted to his death in the Aegean below. As a foreboding of what's to come, the bezel of this pendant suggests the radiant sun.... |
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US $50 |
P73 Helios in torus pendant The image on this pendant comes from a greek silver coin of Rhodes from around 150 B.C. showing the sun god Apollo-Helios wearing a crown of solar rays, facing to the right. The huge statue of this god which stood in the harbor of that city known as the Colossus of Rhodes was one of the ancient "Seven Wonders of the World". |
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US $30 |
P76 Trajan pendant Emperor of Rome from AD 98-117, Trajan brought Rome to it's maximum territorial expansion with his conquest of Dacia (modern Rumania). To commemorate this feat he had a column erected in Rome which stands to this day. He was succeeded by his adoptive son Hadrian who appears on pendant P41 as the reverse to the portrait of his favorite Antinous. |
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US $40 |
P71 Hero pendant The young warrior seen on this pendant comes from a coin of the Roman Republic of about 100 B.C. He is seen, unusually, from the rear--from over his shoulder as it were. Further, he is brandishing a representation of a thunderbolt, as if he were a young beardless Jupiter, a determined look in his eye. This is a pendant that says "don't mess with me!" |
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US $40 |
P68 Athena of Velia pendant The regal image of Athena in her crested helmet seen on this pendant derives from a coin of Velia, a n important greek city in southern Italy. The greeks decorated their helmets with various images, often laurel wreaths or Pegasi, but on this helmet we see something highly unusual: a winged Sphinx. Overall a stunning image.
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US $40 |
P74 Pegasus pendant The image of Pegasus seen here derives from a coin of Corinth from the third century B.C. The famous winged steed was said to have sprung from the blood of the Medusa when she was slain by Perseus. It was upon its back that the hero Bellerophon was able to slay the monster Chimera. Today we think of Pegasus as symbolising freedom--if only we had a winged horse to take us aloft to our dreams! |
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US $30 |
P80 Larissa pendant The exquisite facing head featured on this pendant derives from a coin of the Thessalian city of Larissa, showing the patroness nymph of that town. It was the height of Greek engraving skill which produced artistry such as this. On the reverse may be seen a grazing horse--an advertisement for the renowned breed for which this region of northern Greece was famous. |
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US $40 |
P77 Boy-Priest pendant According to legend, the priests of Apollo would descend annually to a village below their temple mount to seek out the most perfect and beautiful youth to perform the ritual depicted here. By spinning a polished brass hoop with a suede paddle he would simulate the brilliantly shining sun, attracting the god's attention.. So it was thought that prayers intoned during this ritual would go straight to the Apollo's ears… |
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US $30 |
P78 Medical Wand pendant From the earliest times, snakes have been associated with the healing arts. So it came to pass that Aesculapius (seen on the reverse of this pendant), god of medicine chose a snake writhing on a scepter as his symbol. Somewhat modified, it is the origin of the pharmaceutical symbol still in use today. |
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US $40 |
P79 Taras pendant The modern south Italian town of Taranto stands on the site of the former Greek colony of Taras. According to myth Taras, a son of the sea-god Poseidon was shipwrecked near this place, and near drowning implored his father to save him. A dolphin promptly arrived upon whose back the youth was able to ride safely to shore where he founded the town which bore his name. It was to become one of the foremost trading citystates of the greeks, and its distinctive coinage featuring the image of the founding boy on a dolphin would have been familiar to all the greeks and their trading partners throughout the Mediterranean basin. The coin used in the design of this pendant dates from circa 280 B.C. |
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Sphinx from helmet
