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Vase Head, different from the more common dark brown heads, it is in fact a single head representing the Gorgon Medusa,
Created with mastery by a Sicilian artist with a glossy white finish.
It is a modern design element that can be used as a vase because it is empty inside,

And a large head that deserves a place in sight that highlights its particularity

myth of the Medusa

They were three sisters, Stheno, Euryale and Medusa. Stunning in appearance, they had silver wings, hands with red nail polish, and anyone who looked directly into their eyes was petrified. The gorgon par excellence was Medusa, the only mortal among the three and their queen, who, at the behest of Persephone, was the guardian of the Underworld. The Gorgons represented perversion in its three forms: Euryale represented sexual perversion, Stheno represented moral perversion and Medusa represented intellectual perversion.

The myth narrates that Perseus, having received the order to deliver Medusa's head to Polydectes, lord of the island of Serifos, first went to the Graiae, sisters of the Gorgons, forcing them to show him the way to reach the Nymphs. From these he received winged sandals, a pouch and a helmet that made him invisible: gifts to which were added a smooth shield, so much so as to reflect the image of the Gorgon, from Athena and a sickle from Hermes.

Thus armed, Perseus flew against the Gorgons and, while they were asleep, looking at their image in Athena's divine shield to avoid being petrified, cut off Medusa's head and immediately closed it in the bag of the Graiae. From the decapitated trunk of Medusa came out, together with the streams of blood, the winged horse Pegasus and Chrysaor, father of Geryon.

Perseus gave the Gorgon's head to the goddess Athena, who fixed it in the center of her shield to terrify her enemies.