Beautiful incredibly colored completely natural (not colored) cabochon from a rare Spondylus shell originating in Ecuador.

Today, hunting this shell is already strictly forbidden.

These shells have been used for centuries in ritual jewelry especially in Peru. The shells have a colored layer only at the surface and may have a purple, red or orange color. Mostly, only small pieces can be obtained - nicely colored, and so the basis of traditional Peruvian and Ecuadorian jewelery is the mosaic (most often in the combination of Spondylus, chrysocolla, sodalite and white mother-of-pearl). they form the basis of solitaire jewelry.

The most beautiful are all colors together.

Stone height approx. 4 mm.