Cameo with performance Agrippina

An antique brooch of a stone cameo (layered stone) with an image of Agrippina, the gold edge set with rose-cut diamonds and eight natural pearls.

Western Europe, ca 1825

Julia Agrippina minor, called Julia Augusta Agrippina from 50 onwards, better known as Agrippina the Younger or Agrippina minor, was a prominent member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty: she was successively sister, wife and mother of the princeps, the emperor of the Roman Empire.