Pendant with Cain and Abel

Pendant with Cain and Abel

second half 19th century · Austrian (Vienna) or German (Frankfurt-am-Main)

Gold enamel, rubies and pearls.

And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to passe when they were in the field, that Cain rose vp against Abel his brother, and slew him.
GENESIS 4:8 · KJV 1611 · READ THE CHAPTER

The Met · Cain and Abel · CC0 · Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

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