Artisan French Necklace with Venetian Glass Beads

French Art Deco Mother of Pearl Necklace composed of fancy cut mother of pearl beads, amythest and crystal glass discs, faceted amythest ovals...

Rare Louis Rousselet Multi strand necklace. Composed of six strands of gilt wire work, small matte emerald beads, black matte beads and rare Venetian beads in shades of orange and ye...

Magnificent French Art Deco Paste and Givree Glass Bead Sautoir composed of hundreds of paste "buttons" wired to form looped links. Hand blown, h...

Elegant Art Deco French Pottery and Paste Link Necklace from the 1920's. Deep ombre glazed blue hand made pottery beads are spaced with silverplate l...

One of a kind,handmade,statement necklace is on offer from Lorraine’s Bijoux. It consists of vintage Venetian glass trade beads,Vintage French opaline ...

Lorraine’s Bijoux has on offer a Vintage Venetian glass Trade beads with a central glass elbow shaped bead. These beads were made to trade to other countries in exchange for goods an...

This stunning work of jewelry designer signed French necklace is by Philippe Ferrandis and looks like art and sculpture. It is labeled and also noted Paris. The luscious colors of th...

This antique rare hand-pressed-glass necklace features semi-translucent grape-green large beads that are capped with gilt-brass filigree. Based on the combination of bead seams, spring-ring clasp, and metal findings on the unmarked faux Chinese-jade necklace, it dates to the late Victorian period most likely from Western Europe. Around WWI, hand presses, which stamped molten glass into a mold to create a bead with a hole and a seam, were often used to produce costume jewelry as a cottage industry in Germany and the Czech region. This was while there was a lack of factory machine presses and finishing tumblers that used sand to polish out the seam lines. Another reason that the cloudy green beads can be identified as atypically hand-pressed is that they are more opaque and therefore harder and less prone to breaking during formation than fully-translucent glass, which was better suited for automated-machine pressing. Also the green beads are an unusual swirled color including white, which suggests that their production was more limited than machine-pressing would enable. Without the bead-seams, this necklace could be mistaken for one by Coco Chanel. Her 1920s couture...