The Duke With Opals For Eyes

A moodboard for "The Duke With Opals For Eyes" - a FREE prequel story to Fireside Fairy Tales, my short story collection based on Celtic myth & Scottish fairy tales.
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Statuette of St. George on reliquary, 1586/97, height 50cm, Munich Residenz Treasury. An armored St. George sits astride an opal-eyed horse carved from chalcedony, delicately enameled and encrusted with rubies, sapphires, diamonds, rock crystal, pearls and more. The saint’s visage—revealed beneath a movable visor—is carved from boxwood in the likeness of the object’s commissioner, Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria.(Photos: Carl Larson, Pala Gems)