Victorian Medusa Intaglio Signet Ring Size:6.25 A cute antique novelty pendant

A cute antique novelty pendant modelled as a jester

featuring intricate cross-hatched patterns and foliate details

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

Width at head: 1

Stamped 15ct

Victorian Medusa Intaglio Signet Ring Size:6.25 A cute antique novelty pendantDATE: 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