Georgian Medusa Cameo Signet Ring cufflinks Welsh dragon

Welsh dragon

each set with two stones: a round white sapphire beneath a gorgeous pale Ceylon sapphire

jeweller (and Liberal politician) who played an important part in the public life of Southampton

and is often depicted playing the lyre

Georgian Medusa Cameo Signet Ring cufflinks Welsh dragonDATE: Cameo Georgian, c. 1820 Medusa is 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 love A rival crowd of envious lovers strove. They, who have seen her, own, they ne'er did trace More moving features in a sweeter face. Yet above