14k Gold Diamond Heart Pendant & 10k Gold Extra-Long Curb Link Chain Necklace

An impressive zodiac sign necklace of the brutalist design with a sculptured Sagittarius, made of 14k gold with diamonds.
This vintage 14k gold ne...

DESIGNER: Elsa Peretti for Tiffany & Co. CIRCA: 1980’s MATERIALS: 18K Yellow Gold GEMSTONE: Jade WEIGHT: 5.3 grams MEASUREMENTS: Chain - 16" Pendant - 13/16" HALLMARKS: Tiffany & ...

Most likely made in Germany during the Art Deco period, this vintage unsigned long heavy 12-pendant gold-gilt chain-link bib necklace features ball charms of gold-ringed emerald-green matte Bakelite. Hanging 13-inches from the back of the neck, the long necklace is constructed with elegant double-ring links, while it fastens with a large toggle and decorative bar. Each end of the toggle bar resembles stacked balls, recalling the oval-cartouche stacked-cannonball signature of German jewelry chain-specialist Jakob Bengel, who founded his business in Idar-Oberstein in 1873. Due to WWII, the Bengel factory, which is now a museum, permanently closed. His pre-1940 unsigned designs were largely overlooked until his factory catalogues were rediscovered decades later, which enabled 21st-Century books to be published about one of the leading manufacturers of Art Deco costume jewelry. Bengel pieces without the cartouche can be distinguished by thin metal chain links combined with single or bi-color Bakelite pendants in repeating geometric shapes like balls, semi-circles, rectangles, bars, rings or ribbed texture. As Germany was the first country to license Bakelite for factory production since the 1910s, during the next 20 years its costume-jewelry designers began to feature locally-produced colorful Bakelite instead of glass or early semi-synthetic plastics. Between the world wars during poor economic conditions in Germany, its jewelry producers who were manufacturing for export were not motivated to stamp their country on such products. The design of this Bakelite-charm necklace seems inspired by one-of-a-kind chunkier-chain charm necklaces commissioned for couture clothing ensembles by international fashion leader Parisian Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel. She only produced her trend-setting commissioned jewelry...

This is a very special pendant, handmade in Italy, using as a base a rectangular slab of onyx, on which you can see a flower basket with diamonds (0.80 carats) and precious stones. T...