Pareidolia means the illusory perception of meaningful or familiar images in random or amorphous objects: think of clouds that look like dragons, the man in the moon, faces emerging from patterned wallpapers. The most extraordinary of all these are picture and landscape agates and this one is certainly remarkable. The agate is thinned to 0.5 of a millimetre. and then backed with gold leaf. This gives an extraordinary depth to the image and to me it looks like a root ball with branches but turn it the other way and it is perhaps a sunset.

18 carat yellow gold; silver; tiny seed pearls; diamond beads. Approx 2.8 x 2.cm; ring shank size O