Mid-Victorian Medusa Cameo Signet Ring amethyst fully original with 9ct marks

fully original with 9ct marks to the wires

London 1969

which he then dropped away from and opened the second

This piece

Frame: 16 x 14

Mid-Victorian Medusa Cameo Signet Ring amethyst fully original with 9ct marksDATE: Cameo is Victorian, c. 1850. Ring mount contemporary Stunning hardstone cameo ring depicting Medusa in high relief. Medusa is certainly the best known of the three monstrous Gorgon sisters. Our earliest 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 charms; to gain her loveA rival crowd of envious lovers strove.