Maison Gripoix Hand Made Pate de Verre Beads

Multistrand necklace of pate de verre beads and faux pearls. Emerald, amythest hand formed poured glass beads are mixed with celadon faux pearls. Made by Maison Gripoix circa 1950s. ...

Talosel and Pate de Verre Bead necklace by Henry. Unusual walnut like resin form beads are made by hand and inlaid with glass cabochons which are strung with matching gilt metal and ...

Masterfully crafted glass necklace in dreamy hues with crystal details from Pate de Verre Collection. Designed by a former artisan of the Atelier de GRIPOIX in the savoir faire used...

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...