1950’s customized `Verdura’ style shell and diamond Earrings. Each of scallop shell form, possibly originally carved from the one shell, wonderful burgundy colour tones to shell, each earring interspaced with five bezel set small round brilliant cut diamonds, three bezel set seed pearls all accented with eight square pyramid gold accents, omega clip fitments. Each Earring stamped on reverses 14K T-8743. Earrings slightly differ in symmetry to allow for left and right. Earrings measure approximately: 1.5 x 1.5 inches
1950’s `Verdura’ style shell and diamond Earrings
by Louis Wine1950’s customized `Verdura’ style shell and diamond Earrings. Each of scallop shell form, possibly originally carved from the one shell, wonderful burgundy colour tones to shell, each earring interspaced with five bezel set small round brilliant cut diamonds, three bezel set seed pearls all accented with eight square pyramid gold accents, omega clip fitments. Each Earring stamped on reverses 14K T-8743. Earrings slightly differ in symmetry to allow for left and right. Earrings measure approximately: 1.5 x 1.5 inches
Louis Wine
Louis Wine Ltd., Toronto specialists in Antique Silver , Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts, are a 4th generation family business.Louis Wine (1865-1946) founded the company in Dublin, Ireland in 1880. Louis Wine began selling to silver collectors in Dublin from a shop in historic Wellington Quay. In 1908, he located on Dublin's fashionable Grafton Street. To the firm came the worlds leading Georgian Silver collectors. Pieces by Paul de Lamerie, Paul Storr, Hester Bateman and Irish Georgian Silver were constantly on display. Our gallery run by Richard (Louis Wine's great grandson) at 150 Cumberland Street (Yorkville), Toronto, displays a range of fine Antique Silver, Old Sheffield Plate, Antique Jewellery & Decorative Arts from the 18th-20th century, including Bateman, Storr, Ramsden, Tiffany, Knox, Liberty, Jensen, Christopher Dresser.
