Vivienne Westwood Venus Small Pendant Necklace with Orb antique gold-gold

The Venus Small Pendant necklace features a central sculptural motif inspired by the Venus of Willendorf figurine - a historic symbol of femininity from the Stone Age. Cast in gold-tone plating with an antique-effect finish, the design is completed with a delicate ‘Vivienne Westwood’ branded tag and the signature dangling Westwood Orb charm.

• Features antique gold-tone plating
• Fine trace chain 
• Sculptural pendant
• Westwood Orb charm
• Lobster-clasp fastening

The Venus of Willendorf is an 11.1-centimetre-tall (4.4 in) Venus figure estimated to have been made c. 30,000 years ago. It was recovered on 7 August 1908 on an archaeological dig conducted by Josef Szombathy, Hugo Obermaier, and Josef Bayer at a Paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria.

Referred to in archaeology as "Venus figurines", due to the widely held belief that depictions of nude women with exaggerated sexual features represented an early fertility deity, perhaps a mother goddess. [Wikipedia]