Gold Lariat on Rope Twist Chain with Tassels and a Ruby and Pearl Flower

An long enchanting antique set of rock crystal "Pools of Light" beads, each shimmering sphere wrapped in intricately worked silver. These captivating beads, known for their purported...

A stunning original Art Deco french diamond neglige consisting of 3 cts of rose diamonds set in a neglige of two floral drops with smaller diamonds along the chain and bar set in pla...

A fine Brooch Pendant French 18 k Topaz Pendant

An original 1930s Diamond and Sapphire negligee set in platinum and 18 K gold. This delicate necklace is typical of French jewelry of the period.

18kt:0.56gms, Diamond:1.46cts, Silver:12.18gms, Ruby:138.931cts, Size: 635mm

This amazing, highly wearable early 20th century necklace features 28" of double-strand Prince of Wales chain joined by a shield-shaped slider pendant with a raised design, ruby cabo...

A spectacular vintage tassel necklace inspired by the opulence of the Art Deco era, exquisitely crafted in 14K white gold. The elegant navette-shaped plaques are set with 67 round an...

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...