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Couture S/S1956 SignedDiorDesigner First AB Crystals Western Germany Earrings
By Christian Dior
Located in Chicago, IL
Distinguishing these couture Christian Dior Spring/Summer 1956 "Western Germany"-stamped silver earrings featuring the first Swarovski gold-foi...
Category
1950s German Modern Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Crystal, Silver, Base Metal
Couture Gripoix CocoChanelEra SignedFrance PouredGlass Robert Goosens Earrings
By Maison Gripoix for Chanel
Located in Chicago, IL
This couture French Maison Gripoix ornate glass pair of faux-pearl-turquoise-and-diamond gold-gilt clip earrings are both stamped "France" on their convex ear-pads, which is characte...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Crystal, Turquoise, Pearl, Gold, Gilt Metal
Antique GiltSilverFiligree FauxEmeraldChrysoberylPearl Gold Link&Chain Bracelet
Located in Chicago, IL
Possibly as old as the 1800s or a later Baroque-revival imperceptible reproduction, this antique handcrafted gold gilt-silver vermeil filigree-frame textured-chain link bracelet likely originated in the European region of Austria-Hungary-Germany. We partly base this on its brilliant blue-green glass jewels in the rare trace-mineral saturated color of authentic alkaline Columbian emeralds. Including a decorative box-clasp, the ornate bracelet also features 14 prong-set round white pearls mostly mounted on the open-work filigree and 6 marquise-cut vanadium chrysoberyl...
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1860s European Holbeinesque Antique Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Emerald, Pearl, Beryl, Chrysoberyl, Zircon, Gold, Gilt Metal, Silver
HattieCarnegie PostWWII Crystal GoldGiltMesh FlutedBalls Dangle Climber Earrings
By Hattie Carnegie
Located in Chicago, IL
Hattie Carnegie (1886-1956)--one of the leading American entrepreneurs of made-to-order and ready-to-wear fashion for four decades--began producing costume-jewelry parures around WWI...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Baroque Revival Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Crystal, Gold, Gilt Metal, Yellow Gold, Gold Plate
Miriam Haskell Vintage Brooch
By Miriam Haskell
Located in Alford, MA
Miriam Haskell unique vintage brooch, c.1960s, incorporating an array of contrasting beads, in black, pale gray, and salmon, each topped by a small crys...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Couture Antique Chanel Late1920s France Rousselet Lampwork Glass Floral Earrings
By Chanel
Located in Chicago, IL
Marked "Made In France" on their antique brass back-plates like the initial unbranded couture costume-jewelry commissioned by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel since 1924, these early-handcraf...
Category
1920s French Artisan Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Brass
Vintage Navajo Modern BezelSetOnyx GoldFilledTop DoubleSilverBand Solitaire Ring
By Navajo
Located in Chicago, IL
This vintage Navajo modern minimalist solitaire two-finger ring, which was handmade by an unknown Native American, features a sterling-bezel-set black onyx cabochon on one end of a linear-textured yellow gold-filled asymmetrical flat narrow top, which will span nearly three fingers over a soldered silver double band. One band is US-size 8, the larger one is 8.5.
On the underside of the flat top, the zigzag mark of a lightning/bolt or snake/serpent may be an individual artist or that of a Native American trading post, which acquired such jewelry when members of the community pawned pieces when in need of goods or credit. Old Pawn jewelry...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Onyx, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver, 14k Gold
MiriamHaskell WWII FrankHess Layered Rhodoid
Crystal Montee Climber Earrings
By Frank Hess for Miriam Haskell
Located in Chicago, IL
Beginning in 1939, American Miriam Haskell asked her first designer since 1926 Frank Hess to sparingly use metal in their costume-jewelry collections during WWII while war materials were needed. So not unlike the Spring/Summer 2024 floral appliques designed by Balmain artistic director Olivier Rousteing, hand-crafted rose-motif plastic never looked more beautiful in the 20th Century than such eye-catching glossy creations as these ballet-pink clip earrings by Hess. In this reflective and sparkling pair of lightweight slightly asymmetrical climbers, shiny film-like rhodoid is hand-cut, layered in three dimensions for irregular shadows, and riveted with clear roses-montees to a thin silver metal frame, which replaced Hess' characteristic wired Russian-gilt brass frame while still resembling his earlier construction (see our other Haskell listing for an early double fur-clip chain lariat). The earring clips, with tiny holes that were used for unsigned Haskell...
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1940s American Modern Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Crystal, Mixed Metal
Georgian Early1800s Cannetille Filigree WiredPearl FloralSpray RedSilk PinBrooch
By Artistian Made
Located in Chicago, IL
Inspired by folk embroidery, filigree jewelry transformed in the early 1800s during the Georgian period into labor-intensive cannetille, like this antique handmade intricately-wired metal-frame brooch depicting a floral spray. Resembling Silesian wire-ornamentation, this metallic wire and red braided-thread brooch...
Category
Early 19th Century European Georgian Antique Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Pearl, Freshwater Pearl, Gilt Metal, Berlin Iron
Antique FabergeStyle 3AquamarineCabochons 4GreyDiamonds BezelSet WhiteGold Pin
Located in Chicago, IL
This antique Victorian white-gold bar-brooch or tie-pin from the Edwardian period with Faberge-style elements features bezel settings with three square-cut 10mm sugarloaf aquamarine ...
Category
Early 1900s European Edwardian Antique Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Diamond, Aquamarine, Black Diamond, White Gold
Brass Boomerang Necklace
By Oscar De La Renta
Located in Alford, MA
Gold tone necklace composed of boomerang-shaped components in graduated sizes is attributed to Oscar de la Renta, but unmarked. Chain in back is adjustable. Great statement necklace....
Category
Late 20th Century American Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Antique France Fruit Lampwork Carved Glass Beads TuttiFrutti Brass Clip Earrings
Located in Chicago, IL
These antique early-20th-Century French carved lampwork glass bead earrings depict berries and leaves. On each earring, this fruit salad dangles on a single ring that drops from a round convex green "stem", which is attached to miniature brass clips...
Category
Early 20th Century French Artisan Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Brass
Couture 1930s Bucherer Depose ArtDeco 18kGold 40StoneTrimmedWatch TennisBracelet
By Bucherer
Located in Chicago, IL
Trimmed with 40 rose-cut diamond-like stones and marked "deposee" on the Swiss clasp like antique European couture jewelry, this Art-Deco period unique Bucherer luxury snake-chain dr...
Category
1930s Swiss Art Deco Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Crystal, Mixed Metal, White Gold, Stainless Steel, 18k Gold, Platinum
Couture 2000s Four HandCut Rubies Italian Goldsmith Sterling Silver Hook Earring
By UGO CACCIATORI
Located in Chicago, IL
Italian-Riviera goldsmith Ugo Cacciatori designed this signed one-of-a-kind sterling-silver hook earring featuring four hand-cut rubies for a fashion show during a Paris Couture Week...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Contemporary Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Ruby, Sterling Silver
Vendome GiltLeavesBranch GoldFilagree Handwired BlackGlass Crystals ClipEarrings
By Vendome
Located in Chicago, IL
These post-WWII Vendome hand-wired clip earrings each feature a spray of yellow-gold gilt-metal leaves with a stylized branch and five prong-set clear crystals among a cluster of fac...
Category
1940s American Modern Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Crystal, Gilt Metal, Yellow Gold
MiriamHaskell WWII PurpleGlassFlowers GoldLeaves WiredPlasticBack Pre1945 Brooch
By Frank Hess for Miriam Haskell
Located in Chicago, IL
Beginning in 1939, Miriam Haskell asked her first costume-jewelry designer Frank Hess to spare the use of metal during WWII while war materials were needed in the United States. So t...
Category
1940s American Baroque Revival Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Mixed Metal
Grosse 1960s Modern Brooch with Pearls
Located in Alford, MA
Grosse brooch from 1968 composed of an open network of gold tone crownlike elements, each point terminating in a textured drop, and each circular groupin...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Pearl
$300 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique RareVenetian ArchimedeSegusoStyle HandblownGlass Links Pendants Necklace
By Archimede Seguso
Located in Chicago, IL
Like elegant multi-pendant festoon necklaces from the mid-1800s, this antique 19th-Century Italian glass choker collar by the Seguso family that founded Vetri d'Arte on the Venetian island of Murano features three one-inch-drop pendants, which here include reddish pink mouth-blown glass balls with golden reflections that are supported by brass findings and unusual ecru glass links that form a chain. The handcrafted closed links appear to be miniature versions of the style made famous in the next century by the family's descendant Archimede Seguso (1909-1999), whom Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel worked...
Category
19th Century Italian Artisan Antique Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Brass
AntiqueArtNouveau 1920s RedPouredGlass Czech Neiger BrassFiligree Dangle Brooch
Located in Chicago, IL
In the 1920s in an Art-Nouveau style, Czech costume-jewelry designer Max Neiger created this brass dangle brooch that features three different shapes of ...
Category
1920s Czech Art Nouveau Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Brass, Mixed Metal
Bakelite 1940s CoroCraft GoldGilt
Black Beads "Hugs&Kisses" TwoStrand Necklace
By Corocraft
Located in Chicago, IL
This mid-century like-new Bakelite and yellow-gold-gilt beaded double-strand necklace still sports the CoroCraft pegasus 1940s retail foil-tag as if never worn. As an elegant take on...
Category
1940s American Modern Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Gilt Metal, Yellow Gold
Line Vautrin Set Enamel Carved Resin Edelweiss Brass Clip Earrings
Brooch
By Line Vautrin
Located in Chicago, IL
Line Vautrin created "flame-radiating" resin mirrors in mid-century that are very similar to this sculptural resin edelweiss-flower set of highly-textural, hand-carved and enameled c...
Category
Early 20th Century French Artist Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Brass, Enamel
ArtDeco 5BlackDiamond-FacetedSpinels 6BezelSetCognacDiamonds CastSilver Earrings
Located in Chicago, IL
Featuring five sparkly black opaque spinels with diamond-shaped facets and splintery vitreous surfaces, along with bezel-set champagne diamonds with yellow or peach reflections in su...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Spinel, Black Spinel, Brown Diamond, Silver
KineticPuppetStringsPinocchio GoldTexturedChainLink3Strand Early20thC. Necklace
Located in Chicago, IL
Acquired in The States and likely inspired by the American 1938-commissioned animated-feature movie, Pinocchio, that was produced for two years by Walt Disney based on an Italian children's story, this unsigned pre-WWII yellow-gold-gilt brass necklace with elegant draping chains features a three-inch-long playful kinetic multi-textured faux-carved-wood puppet-on-strings pendant with pointed hat, filigree-capped collar and waist, and flexible geometric-shaped limbs. Structured with three chains, notice the additional texture on the slightly larger links of the upper necklace.
Unlike the movie, as the marionette on our necklace wears a lace-like collar resembling the original character illustrated by Enrico Mazzanti in the book by Tuscany-born Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883), the necklace otherwise could date no earlier than the turn of the 19th Century when the spring-ring clasp was first in use. Since that time, Pinocchio became one of the most reimagined characters in literature based on multiple authors whose protagonist was a similar anthropomorphic puppet.
To be conservative about its age as the necklace is in good condition, we suspect that Austrian-born Hattie Carnegie commissioned it to accessorize her "hat-to-hem" custom-made or ready-to-wear clothing that frequently featured amusing figural subjects with articulated parts, such as mythical creatures, fauna or clowns. Before her death at the age 69 in 1956, not all of the pieces in the costume-jewelry parures of her eponymous brand since 1919 were signed, while based on experience we assume that at least clip earrings accompanied this creative necklace...
Category
Early 20th Century American Artisan Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Yellow Gold, Gilt Metal, Brass
ArtNouveau Carved Abalone 18K WhiteGold HighRelief Asymmetric Flora&Bird Pendant
Located in Chicago, IL
This 20th-Century Art-Nouveau style 18-karat white-gold-plated highly textural pendant features a prong-set abalone that is carved into seemingly overlapping flower petals in lustrou...
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Pearl, 18k Gold, White Gold
ArtDeco 1927-1936 Mazer Faux Citrine GrayDiamond Stylized Heart GiltLinkBracelet
By Joseph Mazer
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed with the earliest "Mazer Bros" signature on the colorless-crystal-decorated silver metal clasp, Joseph Mazer designed this Art-Deco period gold-gilt s...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Citrine, Crystal, Black Diamond, Gilt Metal, Gold, Silver
Swedish 1960s Sterling Poured Glass Signed Tennesmed Stigbert Geometric Brooch
By Rune Tennesmed
Located in Chicago, IL
Made in 1962 by Swedish Rune Tennesmed, this modern minimal sterling silver geometric brooch features a faux ruby poured-glass red cabochon, concave sheet metal, and openwork that forms two corners of the two-tier triangular brooch. This simple abstract design is characteristic of the rounded geometric shapes that framed his silvery pieces, while his early work sometimes included a pop of brightly colored glass.
Tennesmed (1929-2011) was a 20th-century studio metalsmith, who changed his given name Carlsson to reflect his craft and his business name, which means "pewtersmith" in Swedish. This unusually elegant and sleek piece was made for Scandinavian Atelje Stigbert, which was recognized for producing modern jewelry designs in sterling silver and gold. The brooch was likely commissioned by the Stigbert workshop founder Stig Engelbert who died in 1962, before his artisan sons evolved the family business to be known as Engelbert.
Recognized as one of the most significant and popular Scandinavian artists of the mid-20th century, Tennesmed revived ancient Viking...
Category
1960s Swedish Modernist Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Ruby, Sterling Silver
Original by Robert Pearl and Rhinestone Brooch/Pendant
By Original by Robert
Located in Alford, MA
Wreath-shaped brooch of various pearls, rhinestones, crystals, and micro gold beads by Robert, c.1960. Hook in addition to pin, so can be worn as pendant. Some of the Original by Robert...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Retro Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Crystal, Pearl
$236 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique ArtDeco Meets BelleEpoque WWI WhiteGold Openwork Link Choker Necklace
Located in Chicago, IL
Victorian Belle-Epoque and Edwardian styles transitioned to Art-Deco period jewelry with semi-precious materials and machine-age shapes around WWI when this unique 20-link choker nec...
Category
Early 20th Century American Belle Époque Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
White Gold
Antique ArtNouveau Tourmaline Gems
Lampwork Glass WhiteGold Filigree Sautoir
Located in Chicago, IL
Epitomizing the Art Nouveau movement, this antique post-1912 sautoir drop necklace with a white-gold openwork-and-wire pendant and filigree clasp features a rainbow of handcrafted gem beads--the largest of which are carved "Rose of France" and purple amethysts plus faceted-pink and beveled-aqua tourmalines--along with what appears to be lampwork glass...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Art Nouveau Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Tourmaline, Amethyst, Gilt Metal, Rhodium, Enamel, White Gold
AncientRevival Gold MotifRondelles Carnelian Beads Knotted BlackSilk Necklace
Located in Chicago, IL
Featuring yellow-gold sinuous-pattern rondelles and carnelian rock-crystal round 8mm beads, this ancient-revival heavy necklace is knotted in stations a...
Category
19th Century American Early Victorian Antique Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Carnelian, 14k Gold, Gold-filled, Gold
Couture ChristianLacroixParis SilkSatin RareBlackLacquerTop OversizedEvening Bag
By Christian Lacroix Paris
Located in Chicago, IL
Designed to accompany Parisian couture by French Christian Lacroix, this unused late-1980s large pale-celadon-green silk satin, which feature textural black topstitching and a sleek ...
Category
1980s French Artisan Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Vendome Green/Blue Crystal Semi Parure
By Vendome
Located in Alford, MA
Vendome brooch and earrings set, the brooch of star shape consisting of large pear-shaped green crystals interspersed with sapphire blue round crystals ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Crystal
$425 / set
Vendome Emerald and Lime Crystal Brooch and Earrings
Located in Alford, MA
Vendome semi-parure of dome-shaped brooch and clip-on earrings composed of large round green crystals, each surrounded by small lime-colored crystals in a floral manner, and each wit...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Crystal, Emerald
Carolee Pearl/Rhinestone Chandelier Earrings
Located in Alford, MA
Dramatic, long Carolee clip-on chandelier earrings, the domed earpieces with pave rhinestones suspending by links a gold metal lobed crown capping twelve strands of small pearls, the strands of varying lengths. Each strand terminates with a rhinestone rondel and black jet faceted bead. the 4 1/2" length skims the shoulder and provides a glamorous evening look. Carolee jewelry...
Category
Late 20th Century American Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Pearl
Hobé Rhinestone Earrings
By Hobé Jewelry
Located in Alford, MA
Hobé earrings featuring clear, sapphire, and ruby crystals in a goldtone metal paisley shaped frame. Signed "Hobe" on interior of ear clip.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Crystal and Ruby Ear Clips
Located in Alford, MA
Dramatic rhinestone and ruby stone ear clips that follow the curve of the earlobe. The earpiece, composed of clear and ruby crystals, tapers at the top a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Couture 1930s ElsaSchiaparelliShockingPink FauxRubyGoldGlassBeads Tassel Sautoir
Located in Chicago, IL
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...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Pearl, Gold
Otazu Fringe Necklace
By Rodrigo Otazu
Located in Alford, MA
A statement necklace from 2010 by Rodrigo Otazu, known for his extravagant creations for Madonna, Lady Gaga, and for the Sex and the City cast. Fashioned from multiple layers of gold...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Eisenberg Rihinestone Earrings
Located in Alford, MA
Rhinestone vintage drop earrings by Eisenberg composed of various-sized round and marquise stones in an intricate setting. Comfortable clip-on backings.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Retro Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Vintage Floral Brooch with Crystals and Pearls, Original by Robert
By Original by Robert
Located in Alford, MA
Large brooch by Robert featuring both clear and aurora borealis crystals along with pearls composed in an intricate flower design. Similar to the work of Miriam Haskell, Robert's des...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Rhinestone Hoop Earrings
Located in Alford, MA
Rhinestone-studded gold metal hoop earrings punctuated by three oval cabochons - green in center, red on one side and blue on the other. By Vogue Bijoux. Great for holiday.
Category
1980s American Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Vintage Pierced Rhinestone Earrings
Located in Alford, MA
Rhinestone dangle earrings for pierced ears featuring five rows of sequentially curved stones at top and three free hanging rows at bottom, each row composed of round rhinestones ter...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
ModernArtist SilverWire Geometric Spirals HandmadeWithPliers Seven Link Bracelet
Located in Chicago, IL
This modern one-of-a-kind geometric-spirals seven-link bracelet was expertly handmade from silver wire dating to the 20th Century in a style not earlier than Art Deco. There are no marks or jewelry techniques other than from the pliers used to bend the wire into the seven differently-shaped links. If not by mid-century artist Alexander Calder, it is in the style of his thousands of pieces of plier-bent wire jewelry that were astonishingly all unique.
This attractive bracelet with atypical three-dimensional pieces would have been reproduced if it had been created by a jewelry designer. While a variety of geometric shapes are often combined in wire bracelets...
Category
20th Century Unknown Modern Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Silver, Base Metal
16thCentury RockCrystal Hogback ScissorCut Silver High Relief Scrollwork Pendant
Located in Chicago, IL
In a rare scissor cut dating to the 1500s, this centuries-old prong-set hogback rock-crystal pendant produces a fascinating play of refractions in low light. With its rectangular nar...
Category
16th Century European Renaissance Antique Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Crystal, Rock Crystal, Silver
Bauer Flower Basket Brooch
By Dorothy Bauer
Located in Alford, MA
Dorothy Bauer was known for her sculptural, whimsical jewelry designs incorporating Swarovski crystals, as exemplified by this brooch. She was active...
Category
Early 2000s American Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Couture 1920s French HandCarved Dogs Hounds Galalith RedPaintedArtPlastic Brooch
Located in Chicago, IL
This Art-Deco period French carved, lathe-worked, sculpted and red-painted black-galalith figural brooch depicts a pair of long-limbed dogs, which may be wolfhounds, greyhounds or wh...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Brass
Brass Handmade Vintage Necklace
Located in Alford, MA
Vintage artisan necklace crafted of flattened ribbons of brass fused together, each piece shaped like a comma or apostrophe. The central pendant is composed of 8 overlapping componen...
Category
Late 20th Century American Artisan Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Brass
Miriam Haskell 1930 Fringe Glass
BrassBar Pendants ChainLink Art Deco Necklace
By Frank Hess for Miriam Haskell
Located in Chicago, IL
Featuring a relatively heavy fringe of dangling Russian-gilt brass bars and contrasting French-blue textural hand-pressed glass beads topped with filigree caps to resemble flower bud...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Brass, Yellow Gold, Gilt Metal
ArtDeco c1925 Bakelite TriColor RedBlueGreen Carved Ribbon Bow BrassPin Brooch
Located in Chicago, IL
Antique ArtDeco-period Bakelite rare three-color ribbon bow hand-blended-and-carved brooch. Given the colors, narrow style, texture and affixed brass pin...
Category
1920s Unknown Art Deco Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Brass
YBA YoungBritishArtist Sculpture JewelryCostume First US Exhibit NYC 2000-2001
By Contemporary
Located in Chicago, IL
Young British artist (YBA) Philippe Bradshaw (1965-2005) was represented by blue-chip international art galleries when he was the first to reimagine iconic-art images as tapestry-like metal-chain installations in evolving multimedia environments. He is best known for transforming hand-assembled colorful anodized-aluminum links into shimmering semi-transparent layered curtains, whose hanging metallic strands uniquely dispersed the light of his camcorder-video projections and the club-house music from records that he deejayed.
In Bradshaw's first American exhibition "Disco Damage" in 2001 at New York City's legendary avant-garde art gallery, Deitch Projects, this jewelry-costume sculpture became part of the artist's live-in evolving studio installation. While later celebrating 15 years of art happenings that had occurred at that Soho exhibition space, its gallerist-cum-museum-director Jeffrey Deitch--who was physically scarred during this unforgettable chaotic several-month experience orchestrated by Bradshaw--recounted this show in his retrospective hardcover book "Live The Art".
When Bradshaw drowned in the Parisian-river Seine in August 2005 while living the high life of his skyrocketing success in Europe, he left a small body of large installations that is mostly distributed among the world's top private art collections. Notably, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has acquired one of his multimedia works. More recently, another assembly of his chain curtains made a rare public appearance at new modern-art museum, Heidi Horten Collection, during its inaugural exhibition in Vienna.
Since winning a major British visual-art prize in 2000 that marked Bradshaw's art-world ascent following fellow Goldsmiths-College YBAs who were close friends, this sculpture evolved from one of his most elaborate jewelry costumes that he created in London while seducing the American who became his girlfriend. Unlike other pieces of jewelry that he made as gifts to participating acquaintances while video taping...
Category
Early 2000s British Contemporary Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Mixed Metal
MiriamHaskell Early SignatureGrapeCluster GlassPearl 1920s Pendant Necklace
By Frank Hess for Miriam Haskell
Located in Chicago, IL
Featuring the earliest white-swirled glass and enameled faux-pearl round beads handcrafted by Parisian lampwork-master Louis Rousselet for American entrepreneur Miriam Haskell and he...
Category
1920s American Baroque Revival Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
Materials
Pearl, Silver
Artist1990s Sterling FreshFlower Pendants ChainLink Jewelers
Werk Necklace
Located in Chicago, IL
Created by a gallery-exhibited progressive artist in the 1990s in a way that foreshadowed TheMet museum exhibition "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion", this ingenious signed sterling-silver chain link collar necklace features eight convertible pink-gem-accented pendants that can fasten your own pierceable larger elements, such as fresh flower heads or cut felt.
It was initially acquired in the late 1990s from the U.S. avant-garde modern jewelry exhibition space Jewelers' Werk based in Washington D.C., which is printed on the included original black box with gold text. The versatile necklace that fastens with a handcrafted filigree floral clasp enables the wearer to choose from a wide variety of objects that can be pierced by the removable prong-set sparkly fuschia studs--from felt balls to folded origami paper--to attach to the likewise removable oxidized sterling cups.
The perhaps morganite or crystal studs, whose silver ends are not visible after affixing such objects, can be mixed or interchanged with your own earring stud(s) or dangling pieces to enable more movement when worn.
As shown in photos, a buyer can avoid the contact of such interchangeable objects with long hair by removing studded cups towards the back of the neck, whereby symmetrical sterling-stud fasteners that serve to link the chain necklace will discreetly remain. If the collector would like to use all of the sterling cups that surround the neck, one of their studs is missing its crystal, which can be replaced if entirely pink stones are preferred.
We photographed the necklace populated with fresh and dehydrating daisy heads, which slowly wilt or dry while worn. With inspiration from TheMet current museum exhibition featuring beautiful contemporary clothes designed to show the passage of time, along with some of its archived fragile fashion based on the fiction-inspired theme "The Garden Of Time...
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Materials
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By Chanel
Located in Chicago, IL
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Located in Chicago, IL
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Located in Chicago, IL
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1940s American Modern Vintage Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
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Yellow Gold, Gold Plate, Base Metal, Gilt Metal
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Located in Chicago, IL
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Located in Chicago, IL
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Brooch
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Located in Chicago, IL
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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Berkshires - Jewelry Watches
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Sterling Silver, Copper
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