Green Onyx and Black Spinal Tassel Sautoir Necklace

Striking combination of natural red Sardinian coral with stations of luminous green jade round beads flanked with round black onyx beads and faceted tubes of rock crystal. Suspended ...

A 30 inch White Coral and Green Onyx Necklace that features 15 round translucent Green Onyx Beads that measure, as an average,12 mm...

A 30 inch White Coral and Green Onyx Necklace that features 12 round, translucent, Green Onyx Beads that measure, as an average, 12...

This 1920s Art Deco masterpiece by Cartier was inspired by the exotic gemstone combinations and design motifs of the Far East. Long sautoirs were all the rage and complimented the so...

These Red Coral and Onyx beads were purchased as part of an estate before being made into this contemporary 30 inch Red Coral and Green Onyx Necklace...

A 30 inch White Coral and Green Onyx Necklace that features 9 round translucent Green Onyx Beads that measure, as an average, 12.5 ...

Elsa Schiaparelli famously embraced "shocking pink" for her Surrealist-aesthetic couture clothing and handcrafted costume jewelry, which she commissioned from Parisian paruriers beginning in the late 1920s--when some of the most expensive gems were fuchsia Burmese rubies. In this antique glass-beaded sautoir tassel necklace, 37 unusual fuchsia faux-pearls are each delicately caged like hot-air balloons by seven textural strands of faux-pearl-and-gold seed beads. These spherical stations are spaced by lustrous white medium-size faux pearls, ending in a four-strand seed-bead tassel that cages four of the fuchsia beads. The beads are strung on bright magenta silk cord without a clasp. Sautoirs were an essential element of flapper style since Schiaparelli's couture-mentor Paul Poiret changed the silhouette of clothing in the 1920s, while the long necklaces remained popular until wartime 1939. To compete with her rival couturier Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, Schiaparelli (1890-1973) relied on the same French glassmakers, Maison Gripoix and Louis Rousselet--the masters of faux pearls at the time who added organic-ingredient coatings to their handmade glass beads. Either glass workshop that was established by the 1920s could have been commissioned to make the progressive hot-pink pearls for this unsigned necklace that dates to the Art-Deco period. The design of this highly-textural tricolor sautoir featuring fuchsia spheres could suit the style of one of Schiaparelli's most frequent paruriers through the 1930s, Jean Clement. Some of his relevant unsigned work for Schiaparelli is in museum collections like The Met, including highly-textural tricolor sphere-decorated buttons/brooches and a fuchsia-toned metal-rosebud bead necklace. After Schiaparelli had become associated with fuchsia, she made particularly prolific use of this bright magenta in the late 1930s. In her demi-couture collections such as "Circus" and "Comedia dell' Arte" (see our 3 photos), fuchsia jackets are adorned with similar colorful spherical glass beads among embroidered appliques and animal/clown brooches, as well as whimsical painted-ceramic buttons...

Fabulous long sautoir necklace, with faceted french jet and clear beads, an oval french jet and paste stone pendant, and ornate long beaded tassel. The necklace closes with a barrel ...

The length of the necklace is 21.5 inches (54.5 cm). The size of the fluted twist beads is 12 x 18 mm. The fluted twist onyx beads in this necklace are uniform, saturated, brightly b...

A 3 strand Green Onyx and White Coral necklace that measures 24, 26, and 30 inches in length and is made up of Natural untreated White Coral beads that measure from 7.5-15mm each off...