Victorian Medusa Intaglio Signet Ring Size:8.25 Tiffany & Co

Tiffany & Co

Pearl & French Jet

and became a resident of the Villa Medici in Rome from 1946 to 1949

Founded in 1865 by John Mallett

Box is stamped: "Hunt & Roskell

Victorian Medusa Intaglio Signet Ring Size:8.25 Tiffany & CoDATE: 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