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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 2160204, member: 5833&quot;]I&#039;m having trouble seeing the wreath really clearly, but overall, looks like an Apollo to me.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/43958D4A-A18A-472D-A2F1-D8F99B49249D" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/43958D4A-A18A-472D-A2F1-D8F99B49249D" rel="nofollow">http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/43958D4A-A18A-472D-A2F1-D8F99B49249D</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Some possibility it is Bacchus/Dionysus.&nbsp; Would need to see the foliage better.</p><p><br /></p><p>It appears to be a glass impression taken from an intaglio.&nbsp; You will often see them called tassies.&nbsp; James Tassie&#039;s name has become a common noun like kleenex &amp; gets used for all types of gem impressions.&nbsp; It&#039;s true his 18th century workshop churned out a flood of them, but his success naturally led others to wade in &amp; such impressions continue to be made to this day.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see no reason to think this impression is any older than the ring it is set in.&nbsp; It may seem incongruous to set a glass cameo in an 18K ring, but it happens.&nbsp; I associate these massive gold rings with the 1970s.&nbsp; Gold was a lot less expensive then.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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