William Delillo Pendant Necklaces

A beautiful, rare and opulent William DeLillo necklace from the early 1970s. It is comprised of four strands of faux pearls worn twisted or not around the neck. They meet at the bottom at a group of two faux pearl and rhinestone set fluted gold bead. Suspended from this ornamental group of three beads are two more strands of twisted faux pearls and a large triangular 4 inch wide pendant. The pendant is made up of ribbed oval gold pieces soldered together and set with rhinestones on the edges. Each point of the triangular back plate is mounted with a smaller oval gold oval piece with rhinestone edges and set with an oval glass turquoise cabochon. The center of the pendant is mounted with five oval ribbed gold pieces with rhinestone edges and mounted with a purple glass oval cabochon. On top of these five mounted purple cabochons is a central gold piece with star border. The center is set with a large round blue glass cabochon. The small stars are stars set with small green glass cabochons. The back of the has a cut out lace work piece. Always keeping in mind the details of design, DeLillo used the same matching larger oval piece mounted with an oval glass cabochon for the push pin clasp. On the back of the claps is an oval cartouche inscribed Wm for William on the top and deLillo along the bottom. The necklace is in extremely good to excellent condition and does not look like it was ever worn. The top of the necklace laid flat measures 20 inches in length including the clasp. The drop from the top large pear of the middle ornament to the bottom of the pendant is 10 inches Belgian born designer William De Lillo started his career working for reputable fine jewelry houses such as; Cartier, Harry Winston and Miriam Haskell. before branching out on his own with the help of Robert F. Clark (head designer for Miriam Haskell) forming William De Lillo Ltd. In New York City in 1968. The unique bold aspect of DeLillo’s pieces attracted the attention of not only celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor, but also American and French fashion houses with whom he later collaborated. For example, for Adolfo he created exaggerated layered pearl necklaces with tassel...