Goddess of Dawn Aurora Large Gold Vermeil Pendant

Aurora the Goddess of Dawn (also know as Eos) stunning Roman mythological pendants in a choice of yellow gold vermeil or patinated fine silver (please see other listing). 3.1cm (1 1/4 inches) in width and height with a hidden bail on the back for the chain to go through. The gold vermeil pendant has a popcorn style chain and is 46cm long or 18 inches.
Please NOTE I tend to plate these to order, please allow an extra couple of days for me to do so, thick gold plating is quite a process!
These Aurora Goddess with her horses picture pendants are created using a mould that was taken from a Victorian button that I was lucky enough to find and I thought what a lovely pendant could be made from it.
They are made using fine silver metal clay which captures the detail beautifully, fine silver metal clay is 99.9% silver versus sterling which is 92.5%, it was first created by the Japanese in gold and then silver, it is microscopic particles of silver mixed with a clay binder that can be sculpted, textured, folded etc. it is then dried and fired, the binder burns away and the metal particles fuse together leaving a metal piece, in this case fine silver.
Gold vermeil is thickly coated gold over silver, it wears very well as it is not flash plated.
In Roman mythology, Aurora renews herself every morning and flies across the sky, announcing the arrival of the sun.
Aurora appears most often in poetry with one of her mortal lovers. A myth taken from the Greek by Roman poets tells that one of her lovers was the prince of Troy, Tithonus. Tithonus was a mortal, and would therefore age and die. Wanting to be with her lover for all eternity, Aurora asked Jupiter to grant immortality to Tithonus. Jupiter granted her wish, but she failed to ask for eternal youth to accompany his immortality, and he became forever old. Aurora turned him into a cicada.

In “On Imagination,” by Phillis Wheatley.

“From Tithon’s bed now might Aurora rise,
“Her cheeks all glowing with celestial dies,
“While a pure stream of light o’erflows the skies.

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