




The scene comes from the frescoes of Villa Arianna at Stabiae — an eighteenth-century discovery that shaped European neoclassical taste. A woman offers winged cupids as though they were precious fruit: the sweetness offered and received. The carving on the round bezel renders this figure-rich composition with a fineness that reveals itself up close — each cupid, the figures of the women and their postures. A small world scene, fixed in bronze. This lightness is heightened in this ring — its proportions and volumes emphasise the playful quality of the intaglio. On the round bezel the narrative scene has all the space to unfold. The shank, gently domed on the outside and smooth on the inside, has two bands crossed at the base that open and close with a single gesture. A free ring worn on any finger. Our GTc signature is engraved on the back of the bezel. The same scene transmits different sensations through colour. Sky blue is the air above Stabiae — the lightness of the morning, the lightness of the cupids in flight. Pearl is the quiet, diffused light of the ancient fresco, soft and warm, drawing out the sweetness of the composition. Porphyry brings the imperial root — the density of history, the scene anchored to the Rome that produced it. Pink shifts the story towards tenderness — the commerce of affection in its most intimate version. Twenty-four centuries later, the scene is still there. On the bezel, on the finger — as alive and playful as the day it was painted.
Notes importantes
Les couleurs des bijoux sur la photo peuvent différer légèrement de la réalité, en fonction de la résolution. Chaque objet est fait main et présente des caractéristiques uniques.Love isn't given. It's chosen.
The Villa Arianna is one of the oldest villas in Stabiae, dating from the second century BC. It is situated on the western hills of Varano, in a clifftop position overlooking the Bay of Naples. The exact extent of the villa may never be determined, as large parts of the rooms nearest the sea have collapsed down the cliff, but an initial survey carried out by tunnel in Bourbon times produced a plan which covered an area of over 2500 sq.m. Including the large palaestra to the west the total area must be in the order of 11,000 sq.m. Some of the most important frescoes of ancient Stabiae were found in the adjoining cubicula. Most of them were removed during the Bourbon period and can now be seen in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. They include frescoes of Medea, Leda and the Swan, Flora (pictured above right) and the Cupid Vendor , which depicts a seated matron, to whom an elderly courtesan seated opposite proffers a winged Cupid, lifted from a birdcage by the wings. National Archaeological Museum - Naples.
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