Red and gold porcelain vase designed by Gianni Versace and produced by Rosenthal in the 1990s. It is in perfect condition, probably never used. The Medusa has always been used by Gianni Versace and even today is often found in Versace collections. The Medusa was one of the three Gorgons, the deadly one. She was a monster, terrible looking, with a head encircled with snakes, boar fangs, bronze hands, golden wings, glittering eyes and a gaze that petrified. Perseus, who had come to kill her by order of Polydette, tyrant of Seriphus, or of Athena, cut off her head while Medusa slept, lifting herself into the air with her winged sandals and using her shield as a mirror to avoid her terrible gaze. Out of her head came the horse Pegasus and Chrysaor. Athena then fixed her head to the centre of the aegis on his chest (or shield) and Perseus collected her blood: the poisonous blood that gushed from her left vein, and at the resurrection of the dead, the blood from her right vein. Later legend made Medusa a maiden rival to Athena for the beauty of her hair, whom the goddess punished by turning her hair into snakes, or even a maiden who, violated by Poseidon in a temple of the goddess, was punished for sacrilege.
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