mounted in an antique gold ring. A fine high relief cameo showing extraordinary three dimensionality, carved from a single piece of caramel coloured sardonyx, depicting the statesman, lawyer and philosopher of ancient Rome, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC-43BC), the face carved in a milky brown striation of the stone above a translucent golden yellow layer.

Mounted in a yellow gold finger ring in the classical taste, contemporary with the gem.