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Item Ships From: Massachusetts
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 Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Pearl, Gold
Jadeite Jade, Pink Spinel
18K White Gold 30" Endless Necklace
By Augusten Burroughs
Located in Northampton, MA
This 30" Jadeite Jade, Pink Spinel & 18K White Gold Endless Necklace is a one-of-a-kind jewel created entirely by hand from 130 natural and untreated, hughly translucent deep green jadeite jade beads from Guatemala, each of which measures just shy of 5mm. 1.89 solid 18K white gold spacer beads that are faceted in four "bands" along each bead. This has the effect of reflecting light into the rich green jadeite beads and increasing their luminosity , but the beads also add diamond-like sparkle between each bead. The necklace has no clasp and is finished with a pair of natural, 5mm Burmese pink spinel beads.
Although I am not offering this necklace with a certificate from a gem lab, it is because I have bought an enormous amount of Guatemalan jadeite from this particular supplier, and I tested his beads for years; all were 100% natural and untreated. I am also a Certified Professional Gemologist, with advanced training in jade.
The finest green jadeite coming out of Guatemala right now is gemologically and microscopically identical to jadeite from Burma. Giving us jade lovers a conflict-free option for imperial and near-imperial jade jewelry...
Category
2010s Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Jade, Spinel, 18k Gold, White Gold
Jade Necklace 16" Guatemalan Jadeite Jade Untreated
Located in Northampton, MA
This weighty (100 grams), substantial, and substantially beautiful 16" jadeite jade necklace is composed of thirty-one 12.5mm natural and untreated jadeite jade beads from Guatemala....
Category
2010s American Artisan Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Jade, 14k Gold
Fine Guatemala Jade Specimen Necklace For Collectors
By Augusten Burroughs
Located in Northampton, MA
This one-of-a-kind necklace is composed of natural and untreated jadeite beads I've purchased from my long-time connection in South America. I've purchased all the finest beads I've ...
Category
2010s American Artisan Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Jade, Sterling Silver
Antique Chinese White Nephrite Pendant Necklace Circa 1920 Certified Untreated
Located in Northampton, MA
This is a rare and wholly original carved & pierced nephrite necklace from the 1920s. Still strung on its original silk and embellished with knots, rock crystal quartz, and natural blue agate. This flapper-era treasure is a creation of spectacular beauty. The cool blue agate beads and the watery rock crystal perfectly compliment the waxy sheen of the light green nephrite carving...
Category
1920s Chinese Art Deco Vintage Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Agate, Jade, Rock Crystal
$3,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Baroque Pearl and Tanzanite Necklace by Deborah Lockhart Phillips
By Deborah Lockhart Phillips
Located in Nantucket, MA
A double strand of large, white, baroque pearls with faceted tanzanite beads and 18K gold spacers. Blush baroque pearls along the back. 18K gold S-hook clasp with center pearl. By...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Pearl, Tanzanite, 18k Gold
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 Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Pearl, Silver
Faceted Black Onyx and 22K Gold Beaded Necklace
By Deborah Lockhart Phillips
Located in Nantucket, MA
An amazing beaded necklace of large, faceted black onyx beads with five graduated melon-shaped 22K gold beads featured at the center. It has a gold chain at the back with a lobster ...
Category
Late 20th Century Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Onyx, 22k Gold
White Akoya Pearl Necklace with 2-Tone Interlocking Spiral
By Martha Seely
Located in Carlisle, MA
From the Orbit Collection - an 18 inch lustrous Akoya pearl necklace with an asymmetrically placed spiral, surrounded on either side by a 6mm heavy wall gold bead. The necklace is ma...
Category
2010s American Contemporary Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Pearl, 14k Gold, White Gold, Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver, Mixed Metal
Turquoise, Coral Necklace, Chinese, Circa 1920-1930
Located in Northampton, MA
This beautiful and beautifully simple necklace was handmade in China in the 1920s or into the 1930s during the Republican Era (1912-1949). It was created for export.
The turquoise...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Coral, Turquoise, Silver
$1,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Jadeite Jade, Grandidierite, Oud Wood, 18K Gold Necklace
By Augusten Burroughs
Located in Northampton, MA
I love rare things. Here's why: you can be the wealthiest person in the world, wake up one morning, stretch and decide, "I want a jadeite and grandidierite beaded necklace." But even...
Category
2010s American Artisan Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Jade, 18k Gold
Louis Rousselet ArtDeco Glass FloralLampwork BlackBeaded SilverToggle Necklace
By Louis Rousselet
Located in Chicago, IL
With a distinct silver twisted toggle clasp and multiple kinds of nubby rondelles dating to the late 1920s, Parisian parurier Louis Rousselet's workshop handcrafted this glass beaded...
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Silver, Sterling Silver
Jade Necklace Translucent Salt
Pepper, New, Certified Untreated 28"
Located in Northampton, MA
I've never seen jade that looks like this: highly translucent, a metallic smoky platinum color with black flecks suspended within. It reminds me of what we now call "salt and pepper ...
Category
2010s American Artisan Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Jade, 14k Gold
$3,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Baroque Pearl, 22K Gold and Black Tahitian Pearl Beaded Necklace
By Deborah Lockhart Phillips
Located in Nantucket, MA
A beaded necklace by Deborah Lockhart Phillips of large 20 x 25mm baroque pearls with round black Tahitian pearls and 22K gold spacers. The length can adjust from 19.5" to 20.25" ...
Category
Late 20th Century Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Pearl, 22k Gold
Keshi Tahitian Pearl Necklace
By Deborah Lockhart Phillips
Located in Nantucket, MA
A necklace of 9mm Keshi Tahitian pearls with a sterling silver clasp. Dimensional and unusual with nice lustre. By Deborah Lockhart Phillips.
The fine jewelry collection is sourced,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Pearl, Sterling Silver
Antique ArtNouveau European FauxLampwork Glass Flora CherryBlossom Long Necklace
Located in Chicago, IL
With a silver clasp that could be as old as the Victorian period and in an Art-Nouveau style with pale intricate flora motifs, this antique long glass necklace features lampwork-like...
Category
1920s Austrian Art Nouveau Vintage Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Silver
Black Spinel with Diamond Conch Shell Pendant with Buddhist Om
Located in Nantucket, MA
A five-strand, faceted, fine black spinel beaded necklace with a diamond encrusted conch shell pendant. The pendant is in an oxidized sterling sil...
Category
Late 20th Century Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Diamond, Spinel, Sterling Silver
Trifari 1930s Alfred Philippe ArtDeco GreenGoldGlass MicroBead 20Strand Necklace
By Alfred Philippe for Trifari
Located in Chicago, IL
On this Art-Deco period glass micro-bead 20-strand necklace, the yellow-gold-plated clasp is stamped with a crown-topped Trifari signature without a U.S.-copyright symbol, which Indi...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Gold, Yellow Gold, Base Metal, Gold Plate
$875 Sale Price
30% Off
Cushion Cut Green Amethyst
Prasiolite
, 18K Gold and Emerald Beaded Necklace
By Deborah Lockhart Phillips
Located in Nantucket, MA
Beautifully rippled, cushion-cut faceted green amethyst (prasiolite) with textured 18K gold beads at the collar bone. Slightly graduated beaded necklace with emeralds in between wit...
Category
Late 20th Century Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Amethyst, Emerald, 18k Gold
Antique HandPressed Glass European GoldFiligreeCapped Beaded Heavy Necklace
Located in Chicago, IL
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...
Category
Early 20th Century German Late Victorian Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Gold, Brass, Gilt Metal
MiriamHaskell 1930s Torsade Set GiltFiligreeCapped FauxPearls Earrings
Choker
By Frank Hess for Miriam Haskell
Located in Chicago, IL
During the Art Deco period, Miriam Haskell's first designer Frank Hess designed this blue-and-white glass-beaded hand-sewn torsade set of dangle earrings and a choker necklace, whose knotted string is capped with their characteristic Russian-gilt brass flora filigree. Coinciding with the American Great Depression, to offer some less expensive costume jewelry than her initial ready-to-wear styles featuring Parisian hand-crafted materials found in French couture, Haskell reduced the cost of some of her findings by locally sourcing stamped metal and incorporating hand-pressed glass beads from Germany and Czechoslovakia.
With a loop, the line from hand pressing the glass can only be found on the blue beads, while the white ones are coated in an organic material like authentic French faux pearls. The ends of the textured cords that string the beaded set were frayed to form a fuzzy opaque dome that hides the knots attached to the filigree caps.
No Haskell jewelry was signed before 1947. The unsigned necklace...
Category
1930s American Art Deco Vintage Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Brass, Gilt Metal, Yellow Gold
22 Karat Gold Sapphire and Emerald Necklace by Deborah Lockhart Phillips
By Deborah Lockhart Phillips
Located in Nantucket, MA
A delicate yet significant 22K gold necklace with faceted blue sapphires and faceted Colombian emeralds. The gold beads have a flower motif and have significant gold weight and fine...
Category
Late 20th Century Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Emerald, Blue Sapphire, 22k Gold
1950s Jonné Bib Necklace with Black Beads
Located in Alford, MA
Goldtone and black bead necklace by Jonné, sits gracefully at the nape of the neck. A double row of various-shaped and faceted black beads are suspe...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Retro Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Couture CocoChanel-Rousselet-Style GlassGold FauxCarnelianPearl Torsade Necklace
Located in Chicago, IL
Beginning in the mid-1920s, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel collaborated with Parisian Louis Rousselet for a wide variety of handcrafted unsigned glass-beaded costume jewelry to compliment h...
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Carnelian, Pearl, Gold, Sterling Silver
Aquamarine and Morganite Multi-Strand Necklace with Diamond Clasp
By Deborah Lockhart Phillips
Located in Nantucket, MA
A long triple-strand or doubled six-strand necklace of beveled aquamarine and morganite (which is a pink aquamarine given that it is in the same beryl fami...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Aquamarine, Diamond, Morganite, Sterling Silver
Faceted Lapis Lazuli and Sterling Silver Beaded Necklace
By Deborah Lockhart Phillips
Located in Nantucket, MA
These are very unusual beads....natural lapis lazuli shaped like a saucer or a roundel and then faceted along their edge, separated by small sterling silver beads to give them space....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Sterling Silver
Black Tahitian Pearl and 22K Gold Beaded Necklace by Deborah Lockhart Phillips
By Deborah Lockhart Phillips
Located in Nantucket, MA
A sexy beaded necklace of 8-9mm black Tahitian pearls with 22K gold wire-work end caps among the pearls. The center features three staggered drops of pearls and 22K gold beads and el...
Category
Late 20th Century Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Pearl, 22k Gold
Cushion Cut Aquamarine and Sapphire Beaded Necklace by Deborah Lockhart Phillips
By Deborah Lockhart Phillips
Located in Nantucket, MA
Cushion cut, faceted natural aquamarines with faceted sapphires between by Deborah Lockhart Phillips. Lovely cut and color. Graduated with 22K gold clasp and 1 inch of gold chain ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Aquamarine, Blue Sapphire, 22k Gold
Faceted Sapphire and 22K Gold Necklace by Deborah Lockhart Phillips
By Deborah Lockhart Phillips
Located in Nantucket, MA
A striking yet delicate necklace comprised of faceted blue sapphire beads with three pear shaped drops at the front. Spaced with 22K gold beads and an S-hook clasp. There is added ...
Category
Late 20th Century Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Sapphire, 22k Gold
Aquamarine and 18K Gold Beaded Necklace by Deborah Lockhart Phillips
By Deborah Lockhart Phillips
Located in Nantucket, MA
A stunning aquamarine beaded necklace with 18K gold. The large aquamarines are a combination of beveled and faceted round beads of exceptional color and translucence. The gold bead...
Category
Late 20th Century Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Aquamarine, 18k Gold
Lapis Lazuli and 18K Gold Necklace
By Deborah Lockhart Phillips
Located in Nantucket, MA
Unusual triangular cut lapis lazuli beads separated by 18K gold spacers with beveled lapis tube beads along the back. 18K gold lobster claw clasp. By Deborah Lockhart Phillips.
Th...
Category
Late 20th Century Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, 18k Gold
Vendome Pearl and Crystal Semi-Parure
Located in Alford, MA
Vintage Vendome set composed of a three-strand necklace and earclips featuring large faux pearls interspersed with faceted topaz-toned and iridescent crystals and white beads with go...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
$375 / set
Chalcedony, 22 Karat Gold and South Sea Pearl Beaded Necklace
By Deborah Lockhart Phillips
Located in Nantucket, MA
This is actually two separate necklaces, both with tumbled and faceted chalcedony beads (great color), and 22K gold beads with fine granulation work...
Category
Late 20th Century Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Chalcedony, South Sea Pearl, 22k Gold
Smokey Topaz Beaded Necklace
Located in Nantucket, MA
A rare cut of smokey topaz beads in a wedge-like shape offering dimension and stone clarity. Flat on the backside next to your skin and tapering to a top...
Category
Late 20th Century Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Topaz, Sterling Silver
22K Gold and Tumbled Fluorite Multi-Strand Necklace by Deborah Lockhart Phillips
By Deborah Lockhart Phillips
Located in Nantucket, MA
A triple strand necklace of tumbled fluorite beads interspersed with 22K gold beads and chain along the back with a screw clasp. By Deborah Lockhart Phi...
Category
Late 20th Century Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Fluorite, 22k Gold
Beaded Double-Strand Necklace of Flourite
Pranite by Deborah Lockhart Phillips
By Deborah Lockhart Phillips
Located in Nantucket, MA
A nicely dimensional double-strand necklace of natural flourite in a spear shape with a range of colors from soft greet, blue and lavender. Sterling silver end caps and round pranit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Sterling Silver
Black/green Tourmaline and Gold Bead Chunky Necklace
Located in Boston, MA
Black/green Tourmaline and Gold Bead Chunky Necklace - This unique black/green Tourmaline bead necklace is strung with 22 rough cut tourmaline beads th...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Massachusetts - Beaded Necklaces
Materials
Tourmaline, Gold, 18k Gold
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