Featured Millefiori In Beastie Setting

Thank you for that -- I find the shield particularly interesting. Not because I know anything more, but because there's another beastie with the shield/belt/girdle.

 

Oh really... I thought, on the first one, that the shield might be some kind of metal breast plate/cover, but I thought I might be misreading what I was seeing, it's very clearly double in the second... there must be a name for that, but if I knew it, I don't now.

 

There's another one! No shield, though. And I'm not sure of age, because this is a bit of a mix of a project on etsy.

 

http://www.solarius.com/dvp/gallery/wdw_norway_figurehead.htm
seems as if every culture had a variation...

 

I'm glad that Cheryl found it. Parts of it were hilarious! As usual, I lose track of threads here in Antiquers and just caught up with this one.

 

This is a centauress suckling her young:



and an intaglio ring I wear most of the time has a pantheress associated with Dionysus on it, so think we can adopt gryphoness for the one that gives a whole new meaning to 'stock image'.

 

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/ite...tm_medium=email&utm_content=item#&gid=1&pid=1

 

@Bronwen Dali -- from Catalonia... home of the Vibria. Nice.