Very Beautiful Victorian Cameo Locket Pendant

The beautiful face on this cameo is that I think of The Roman Goddess Flora, Goddess of Flowers and Spring, with a particular association with May Flowers, which indeed may be the flowers in her hair. The cameo is finely and delicately carved from Shell and sits in a oval mount of yellow metal which carries no marks and which I think is most likely to be Pinchbeck as I think it is too light in weight to be gold. On the back of the locket is an oval door of highly convex glass which feels quite thick which when I put my thumb under it it appears to magnify. The mount is in the Etruscan Revival style which was very fashionable in this period. The detail of both the cameo and its mount is exquisite but my camera on my dear old iPhone did struggle trying to get as much in focus as possible, and indeed I had to take a photo of the cameo from two different sides so in most of the photos the focus is on her face but in the second photo the focus is on her hair and those beautiful flowers. This Cameo Pendant Locket could possibly have been a Souvenir Piece brought back from a Tour of Italy, but there is something that makes me feel the mount may have been made later for the cameo back in Britain possibly as a mourning piece as that little glass door is certainly a beautiful window to view any content of sentiment it may have contained within.