Medusa brooch by Wièse,

with a caramel coloured agate cameo of the Gorgon Medusa mounted in a circular yellow gold brooch, the border comprising intertwined serpents.

Signed: WIESE
Paris, circa 1870

Presented in its original fitted case in dark green leather and velvet. The cameo is a 19th Century carving, based on the Gorgoneion gems of Classical antiquity. Whilst the jewel was constructed in the nineteenth century, the jeweller has gone to every effort to make it appear like a treasure from Classical antiquity.