Maison Gripoix Pate de Verre Bead Necklace

Elegant, handmade Italian Pate de Verre Seed Bead Chain from the 1940's. Chain links of hand of crochet charcoal seed beads are spaced with orangey red glass beads. Engraved brass sp...

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 ...

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 ...

French Poured Glass Faux Jade Beads from the 1950's. Double strand with hand made mottled Gripoix glass beads and spacers in variegated jade tones with gilt filigree clasp. 17.5" s...

Francoise Montague hand poured pate de verre glass necklace in dreamy shades of yellow . Can be worn long or doubled- as shown in images.By former artisans of the atelier of Gripoix(...

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...

Multi-color tassel drop faceted glass necklace from Francoise Montague Paris.

YVES SAINT LAURENT vintage rare multi strand beaded necklace featuring multicolored pate de verre, mirrored and gold toned charms. This is an early YVES SAINT LAURENT piece of costu...