A large pewter pendant of a pierced and stylised seahorse, with a unicorn horn upon its head and set with aqua-coloured Swarovski crystals in its eye and tail; with a third crystal set in its stylised bale.
On an 18" (46cm) trace chain.
From aequor; sea, equus; horse and cornus; horn - the preserved remains of an elusive, mythical and magical creature of the shallow seas, the mystical horned seahorse, identified by Solinus the 3rd century scholar, in his lost Classical bestiary.
On an 18" (46cm) trace chain.