Collectible Augustine Gripoix Gold Tone Pink Pate De Verre Necklace, Circa 2000s

Collectible Augustine Gold Tone Pink Flower Pate De Verre Bracelet Circa 2000's. Free form flower sits on the middle of three rows pink pate de verre. This is such an elegant brace...

Collectible Augustine Gripoix Pate De Verre Dangling Earrings Circa 2000s. These gorgeous Red and Diamante Pate de Verre look like creeping red flowers on a vine. They are made in ...

Collectible Augustine Gold Tone Red Pate De Verre Dangling Earrings. There is a faux peral in the center. Pierced. Non Signed But Augustine. These are so fresh and updated. Augusti...

Pate De Verre Dangling Faux Pearl Necklace Circa 2000s. Spectacular gold/silver tone metal with black joiners make up this necklace and then you have the dangling pieces. I also ha...

Collectible Augustine Silver Tone Necklace with Green Gripoix Flower and Pieces. Long Sautoir with Flower at End and dangling Green Gripoix Piece. Gripoix is always classic and alwa...

Vintage Gripoix Translucent Earrings with Pieces Of Gold. Dangling Earrings With Pieces of Gold and Stones. Long Necklace/Sautoir on Site to Match. So Gorgeous! This matches the necklace and sometimes when a set is matched it is magical and this translucent dangling pate de verre is one of them. Clip On. Guy de Maupassant wrote a famous story about a necklace. The story is about a young, pretty, intelligent, well educated but poorly endowed bride who has to marry a petty official; and thus suffering from the limitations of living a life with a husband that lacked any exquisite qualities. In order to entertain his dejected spouse, one day her husband gets an invitation to a ball and gives his wife 400 francs he had saved for a hunting rifle so that she would be able to order an appropriate dress. However, when the dress is ready it becomes clear that it is lacking jewelry; and it would be impossible to attend the ball while looking so poor. The protagonist approaches her rich childhood friend with whom she was raised together at the monastery and borrows a diamond necklace from her. The ball is a great success and she is the centre of attention. However when the woman returns home, she discovers that she has lost the necklace. In order to conceal her faux pas from her friend, she buys a new necklace identical to the one she lost, and to pay it off the woman gets into a huge debt which over the years gradually drags her down the social ladder from bourgeoisie to poverty. Ten years later, having lost her good looks, the woman encounters her friend on the Champs Elysees, who still looks young, beautiful and rich. The protagonist reveals to her friend the whole story about the necklace, but her friend replies in amazement that the diamonds were fake and would “cost 500 francs at most”. Maison Gripoix starts out with a dramatic story. In 1869 (or a year earlier, according to other sources), Paris master glass-maker Augustina Gripoix began making replicas of pearls and crystals; casting glass into different shapes and colours and inserting them into most sophisticated settings. She used the pâte de verre (glass paste) technique, whereby a traditional ceramic or qypsum form was filled with a multi-colour pieces of glass and special gluing substances and then baked in a furnace, resulting in objects featuring fantastical hues. Only Augustina made her crystals by pouring the melted glass paste into the press moulds skipping the furnace step, allowing her to achieve the purity of colour, transparency and shine. She found a simple method to make beautiful jewelry and thus Marquises, Duchesses and Princesses qued up ... so Madame Gripoix would make them replicas of their own jewelry in case of robbery or loss, or some unusual jewelry pieces for their new wraps, neckpieces, or boas. The so-called ‘costume jewelry’ emerged to a large extent thanks to the work of Maison Gripoix. Augustina Gripoix earned her fame in the 1890’s when she started making necklaces for Sarah Bernhardt to wear on stage; and later the costume jewelry for the first high fashion house of Charles Frederick Worth. Later on, Paul Poiret, the leading couturier of the 1910’s contacted her and she created sophisticated oriental style jewelry for him to match his famous oriental costumes based on the aesthetic of Diaghilev’s initial Russian seasons. The value of costume jewelry was now being recognized in its own right; and not just for imitation purposes. The taste of emancipated young girls, who were gaining more and more freedom and opportunities, was best met with bijouterie. So in the 1920, when Augustina’s daughter Susan became the head of the House; Gripoix prospects became even more exciting. Girls with short-cropped hair in short dresses zoomed by in open-top cars wearing bijou rather than diamonds. Everyone ordered bijouterie from Madam Gripoix during this period, from Jeanne Lanvin to Jean Piguet...

Attractive and unusual French multi strand necklace composed of five strands of amber, topaz and citrine pate de verre vari sized round beads with natural wood bead stations. Nice ...

Art Deco Ruby pate de verre rondel bead necklace with pave ball spacers from Maison Gripoix. Hand made ruby glass rondels. 1920's France. Excellent condition.

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.<...

Attractive Louis Rousellet necklace of hand made graduated glass pearls with pave rhinestone rondels spacers. France 1950's. Beautiful quality and Exc...

Wonderful Ruby pate de verre multistrand bead necklace by Ciner, NY. Pave rondel spacers add interest to the pave clasp. Wonderful qual...

Miriam Haskell early Turquoise Pate de Verre Wrap Lariat from the late 1930's. These lovely lariats have clip fittings on the ends, which were originally designed to be attached to d...