Set with cabochon sapphires and emeralds, accented by brilliant-cut diamonds, centering a cabochon emerald and suspending a drop-shaped emerald.
Colored picture (not for sale) : Audrey Hepburn wearing the brooch, 1962 © Dalmas SIPA
From for the collection of Audrey Hepburn
Daniela Mascetti and Amanda Triossi, BVLGARI, Milan, 1996, p. 82 for design drawings of similar brooches dating to the mid-1960s, a brooch of highly similar design without pendant is illustrated on the dust jacket.
Amanda Triossi, BVLGARI - 125 Years of Italian Magnificence Grand Palais, Milan, 2010, p. 134-135 and p. 333, nos. 198, 199 and 200 for jewels of similar design dated to 1960 and 1965.
Vincent Meylan, BVLGARI - Treasures of Rome, Italy, 2018, p. 177 for a recollection by Vicenza Tomassi of Audrey Hepburn’s patronage of Bulgari.