Important articulated necklace, which can be divided into two asymmetrical bracelets, in yellow gold (750), composed of circular medallions with heads of Gorgons alternating with cameos on malachite, with mythological subjects [**] or winged angels' heads, in chased closed settings in oval medallions or rounded rectangular cartouches, holding in tassels chased lozenges of a quatrefoil or scarabs in engraved malachite, and joined by rings or by three thin silver chains (min. 800) to the clasp. Ratchet clasps. Probably Italian work, in the Etruscan taste, of the second half of the nineteenth century. Repunched with an owl and a swan. Total gross weight : 145.2 g. - Length. bracelets : 26.5 and 24.8 cm - Total length : 51 cm. Wear, scratches; some cracks and chips to the cameos, notably to the bust of Diana; the cameo of the abduction of Europe formerly restored with small lack. Probable transformations. ** Minerva or Diana in bust, Venus in the bath with Cupid, the abduction of Europa and Hercules and the Cretan bull.