Victorian Medusa Intaglio Signet Ring Size:6.25 white and blue enamel

white and blue enamel

Width at head: 1

the hand painted eye miniature dates from c

within a rope-twist border adorned with little silver pommels

Intaglio carved on the base is a bird flying out of its cage

Victorian Medusa Intaglio Signet Ring Size:6.25 white and blue enamelDATE: Victorian, 1868 A spectacular sardonyx intaglio signet ring carved with the hideous face of Medusa. With snakes for hair, and a face that would turn any who gazed upon it to stone, Medusa is the best known of the three monstrous Gorgon sisters. The earliest known reference to the Gorgons is found in Hesiod's Theogony, but it was Ovid who really fleshed out the story in the Metamorphoses, where he describes Medusa in her youth: "Medusa once had