Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A tourmaline and gold ring by Bulguri, the oval-shaped cabochon pink touramline is set in yellow gold with heavy fluted shoulders and shank. Signed Bulgari. Size I 1/2. With Bulgari case.

Believed to have originally been bought by Elizabeth Taylor and is accompanied with the following postcard of Elizabeth Taylor with a note to the reverse from Tom Rand dated September 2016, "In 1988 I was asked by Franco Zeffirelli to design the costumes for the film Young Toscanini, that he was planning to direct. The film was to star C Thomas Howell and Elizabeth Taylor. She was to play a Russian Opera Diva, the mistress of the Emperor of Brazil and he was to be Toscanini. During our period of filming in Rome, Elizabeth arranged an evening shopping to Bulgari, where she was well known. She asked her secretary, Roger Wall and I to go with her. She bought herself a watch with diamonds and she bought me this gold and tourmaline ring."