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A Vintage Francoise Montague Droplet Collar. A striking and wonderfully glamorous collar featuring an elaborate pierced metalwork collar adorned with beading and eleven large droplet...

A beautiful Vintage Dior Emerald Necklace and Earring Set. Crafted in gold plated metal and set with adorable emerald crystals surrounded by clea...

Sensational signed Guy Laroche Necklace featuring prong-set, sparkling Marquise clear crystals and round facet cut Jet stones in a unique Demi-Lune design; Silver finish; approx. 27...

Amazing necklace by the French house Césarée, made in the 1990s. The piece is composed of multiple chains of beige jasper natural stone beads cascading from a rigid antique bronze ring. At the lower ends of these chains, there is a polygonal metal bead with ethnic decorations. The focal point is a large central stone medallion, adorned with a triangular bronze decoration of small circles with embossed patterns. The combination of the stone's hue with the warmth of the patinated metal creates a visually rich contrast, making it an ideal accessory for any outfit. The House of Césarée, Originality and Ethnic Taste Césarée was founded in 1980 in Paris by jewelry designer Laurence Coupelon. Her constantly evolving creations range from pure ethnic inspiration to distinctive haute couture jewelry, combining natural materials with bronzed or silver-plated metals. Her originality and distinctive style have made her jewelry house not only a household name but also a highly recognizable style, establishing it as a benchmark for ethnic jewelry in the European fashion world. Since its inception, her unique style has captivated fashion editors around the world: Vogue, L'Officiel, Le Figaro Madame, Air France Madame, Elle, Marie-Claire, Be, Grazia, Gala, Citizen K., Cosmopolitan, etc. Her jewelry has also been featured in films and television programs. Her style and jewelry have often been the result of close collaboration with leading fashion designers: Nino Cerruti, Michel Klein, Agnès B, Cacharel, Kenzo, and Sonia Rykiel. Her creations are also chosen by numerous French and international artists, including Emmanuelle Béart, Claudia Schiffer, Françoise Xénakis, Agnès Varda, Marianne James, Marisa Bérenson, Jodie Foster, Danièle Thompson, Mouna Ayoub...

This dramatic and elegant vintage faux pearl, faceted lucite and brass multi strand bib necklace is a forever statement piece. It lays beautifully on the neck and can go any season f...

This is a fabulous 4 piece brass and lucite set from Selro Selini (unsigned) including a necklace, earrings and bracelet. It includes an adjustable bolo s...

Beautiful One-of-a-Kind Necklace comprising High Quality Natural Rock Amethyst Quartz, centered by a Sterling Silver companion Pendant of like form and texture, suspending from coord...

Robert Goosens, the French haute-couture Chanel-favorite parurier who enjoyed reinterpreting ancient and antique styles of jewelry with rock crystal and faux stones, also collaborated with Madame Alix Gres. Relevant to this statement necklace, the Parisian theatrical-costume designer, who founded the French fashion-house Maison Gres, commissioned Goosens to make spiral-wire adornments for her couture gowns. This handmade hammered brass wire choker necklace with five dropped en-tremblant pendants is decorated with unique colorful beads and wrapped wire. The piece dates between 1969-1971 based on similar unsigned spiraled-wire metal jewelry without goldsmithing marks in the museum collection of TheMet (see our photo), which acquired it from Maison Givenchy founder Hubert de Givenchy, who was one of most supportive fans of Gres. Like the legendary sculptural clothing designs of Madame Gres, this necklace was inspired by Greco-Roman costumes, while its sculpted shapes by Goosens reference her signature curvilinear fabric techniques that earned her the sobriquet of "the master of the wrapped and draped dress". Goosens (1927-2016), nicknamed Monsieur Bijou, also made jewelry inspired by other periods of antiquity to compliment the couture clothing of Coco Chanel, Cristobal Balenciaga, Elsa Schiaparelli, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent. After Goosens collaborated with Gres, he revisited golden spiral designs with Saint Laurent. Similar to the free-flowing fabric manipulated in Gres gowns, this hand-shaped necklace that we photographed in sunlight is a study in motion that drapes across a curvy cleavage. Adding drama to this necklace below its wire choker, the top teetering-wire pendant is a twisted and hammered horizontal double spiral, which is a Hellenistic symbol of life and transformation suggesting the breasts of a goddess of fertility and motherhood. Yet distinctly Goosens, 18 hand-cut and hand-dyed "ancient-Roman-blue" rock-crystal beads are wire-strung to weight a second tier of two separate vertical double-spiral pendants. On each, a wrapped-wire tube divides the blue beads. Between these vertical pendants in two tiers, the central vertical pendants each feature a one-of-a-kind multicolor bead (yellow/blue/red/black/white) in two lengths with abstract organic patterns recalling ancient Italian glasswork. Four more blue beads bracket these larger colorful beads. An additional 10 blue beads and 5 wire tubes decorate the bottom looped wire pendant, as well as the bottom of the wire choker. Like the hammered-wire jewelry designs of modern artist Alexander Calder, the creative complex construction of this necklace surprisingly required no metalsmith techniques, such as soldering or casting, just great skill with a jewelry pliers and hammer. For a bigger picture of couture clothing by Madame Gres during the decade beginning in 1969, she notably designed many museum-collected one-color silk-taffeta draped long gowns with empire waists and simple high collars or geometric cut-outs. Remarkably, the focal points for some of these unique dresses were at the wrists, from where long pouf sleeves voluminously droop around the hands to nearly the floor like two enormous long-petaled flowers. If paired with this equally downward-focused and balanced necklace from this same period, its bold Greco-Roman elements would have pulled a viewer's gaze of the dress from floor to face. Although there is no significant provenance for this necklace, hammered brass and tinted rock crystal were among the few materials repeatedly associated with Goosens from 1969-71. For example, in his overlapping interior-decor collections based on themes of waterlilies or foliage, Goosens hammered gilt brass wire and sheets (see our closeup photo) to represent plant parts or he wired rock-crystal beads to appear as tiny fruits. While the two multicolor glass or resin beads in this necklace are atypical, the combination of blue, yellow and red is a palette that the designer used for other pieces of rock-crystal jewelry and he created many kinds of multicolor faux stones with glass or resin paste, such as faux Tibetan turquoise including black and white. According to journalism based on interviews with Goosens, he often acquired unusual stones and glass for inspiration during his extensive travels exploring museum-collected antiquities. Since Maison Goosens was acquired in 2005 by Maison Chanel, it opened the Parisian showroom Galerie Goosens and associated shops to sell many kinds of reproductions and reimagined works by the founder, which fortunately does not suit the completely handmade elements of this necklace. So this couture piece remains one-of-a-kind. If desiring a vintage haute-couture original by Robert Goosens, we recommend perusing the Maison Goosens website so that a reproduction with a contemporary signature is not mistakenly purchased. Madame Gres (1903-1993) was born Germaine Emelie Krebs, but initially identified her fashion designs with the pseudonym Alix and later Alix Barton...

Just stunning, Gale Rothstein Necklace studded with various semi precious stones such as malachite, garnets, moss agate, and snowflake obsidian. 19.5 inches long, a show stopper In V...

A mesmerizingly beautiful vintage Juliana Zebra Necklace created by American jewellers DeLizza & Elster during the 1950s. A wonderfully autumnal colour ...

Presenting a gorgeous crystal and amethyst Atelier Versace necklace designed by Donatella Versace. From the Fall/Winter 2000 collection, a similar ne...

Art Deco Sterling Silver Hand Finished 10mm Pearl 6.5ct Round Brilliant Cut Cubic Zirconia Drop Pendant Necklace This elegant, sophisticated drop pendant ...