A STRIKING CABOCHON TOURMALINE, GOLD AND SHELL BROOCH, VERDURA
A STRIKING CABOCHON TOURMALINE, GOLD AND SHELL BROOCH, VERDURA

Details
A STRIKING CABOCHON TOURMALINE, GOLD AND SHELL BROOCH, VERDURA
The orange-colored scallop shell enhanced by cabochon blue-green tourmalines, mounted in 18K gold, circa 1940
Signed by Verdura
Literature
For a brooch of similar design see:
Lodovica Rizzoli Eleuteri, Twentieth-Century Jewelry, Electa/Abbeville, Milan/New York, 1994, p. 120