Pearl Beaded Necklaces

Necklace of fine pearls in baroque form in creamy-white oriental pearl. The rectangular platinum clasp is adorned at the top with an antique cushion-cut diamond. A safety chain in 18...

Long before Barbie, 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 jewels were fuchsia Burmese rubies. In this antique glass-beaded sautoir tassel-necklace, 37 "shocking pink" balls 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 faux pearls. 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 Gabriel "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 tri-color sautoir featuring fuchsia spheres particularly suits 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 tri-color 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 del' 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...

An art deco graduated jadeite beads necklace. Beautiful long necklace, created during the art deco period, back in the 1930. It is composed by...

Beginning in the 1920s, Coco Chanel collaborated with Parisian Louis Rousselet for a wide variety of handcrafted beaded jewelry to compliment her couture-clothing designs. This Art-D...

This Art Deco era (circa 1930s) pearl necklace measures a brief 15 ½ inches and is composed of 111 natural, uncultured saltwater pearls. The small and...

A grand Art Deco Pearl Necklace featuring two strands of lovely lustrous Cultured Pearls which graduate in size towards the bottom. The piece ...

Vintage GIA Certified Pearl Necklace includes 83 graduated cultured pearls ranging from 3.6mm to 7.69mm. The clasp is 14 karat yellow gold...