Victorian Medusa Intaglio Signet Ring Size:6.25 Lover's Eye jewellery was a

Lover's Eye jewellery was a phenomenon that

featuring intricate cross-hatched patterns and foliate details

white and blue enamel

within a rope-twist border adorned with little silver pommels

Width at head: 1

Victorian Medusa Intaglio Signet Ring Size:6.25 Lover's Eye jewellery was aDATE: 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