A 19th century shell cameo brooch, carved to depict the Three Graces and Venus dancing for Mars, after a work by Antonio Canova, in a plain gold collet setting, together with a shell cameo stickpin depicting the bust of a bearded male, possible Hercules, and an unmounted shell cameo, carved to depict an angel, brooch dimensions 57mm x 50mm. £150-200

The image of the Three Graces and Venus dancing for Mars is after a work in termpura on paper by the neoclassical artist/sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822), which is housed in the Museo Canova in Passagno, Italy.