Early Victorian Pique Book Vinaigrette three-stone rings Including a four-leaf clover

Including a four-leaf clover

and it's remarkably well preserved

A spectacular sardonyx intaglio signet ring carved with the hideous face of Medusa

changing to pink in iridescent light

It's constructed from two rows of hemisphere domes

Early Victorian Pique Book Vinaigrette three-stone rings Including a four-leaf cloverDATE: Victorian, c. 1840 An amazing early Victorian vinaigrette designed to look like a book. The outer covers each feature a pique panel, and it opens to reveal a charming pierced giardinetto (flower basket) scene, behind which would have been stored a piece of perfume soaked cloth. When the owner required a whiff of sweet fragrance (because, let's face it, 19th century France wasn't all meadows and rose gardens) they could open it up and restore