Victorian Revival "Medusa the Gorgon" Shell Cameo Brooch monty collection and intricate scrolls and granulation

and intricate scrolls and granulation around the border

and date to around 1900

and dates from the turn of the 20th century

set with natural pearls and old and rose cut diamonds

the end of the pin is missing

Victorian Revival "Medusa the Gorgon" Shell Cameo Brooch monty collection and intricate scrolls and granulationDATE: Victorian Revival, 1977 Striking round shell cameo brooch featuring the infamous Gorgon sister Medusa. Carved in high relief and, unusually, with a white border around the outside, she's depicted in the classical style with winged head and snakes tied around her neck, her contorted face emitting a terrible shriek Medusa is certainly the best known of the three monstrous Gorgon sisters. Our earliest reference to the Gorgons is found in Hesiod's