This captivating cameo brooch features the world's most luxurious materials in a beautiful Art Nouveau design. The cameo of a Valkyrie is set against a background of rare tortoiseshell, while skillfully chased 18K yellow gold, dotted with platinum-set diamonds weighing 0.50 carat, provides the perfect frame. 

  Art Nouveau, an avant-garde style that emerged in the early 1890s, received widespread popularity almost simultaneously in Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Denmark and America. The movement celebrated natural beauty with fluid lines, exotic decorations and fantastical subject matter. This outstanding brooch combines all of these hallmarks to form a work that is at once vibrant and elegant. 

  Hallmarked 

  Circa 1910 

  2 3/4" wide x 1 1/4" high