Antique ArtDeco Meets BelleEpoque WWI WhiteGold Openwork Link Choker Necklace

Featuring stamped-brass findings c1930, this Miriam Haskell collar necklace was made by her first designer Frank Hess in an Art-Nouveau style with ornate floral motifs for its 15 dangling bud-shaped or fluted-ball pendants, along with intricate textural patterns on the stamped bands that link the oval-ring chain choker. Among the festoon of graduating charms, the largest centered pendant is 1.5 inches long and 0.75 inches in diameter. One of our photos show that the surprisingly light-weight pendants are hollow--some with a hole punched at the bottom. The distinct stamped bands, which include a fold-over clasp, are found in more obviously Haskell-Hess pre-WWII jewelry...

Created by a gallery-exhibited progressive artist in the 1990s in a way that foreshadowed TheMet museum exhibition "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion", this ingenious signed sterling-silver chain link collar necklace features eight convertible pink-gem-accented pendants that can fasten your own pierceable larger elements, such as fresh flower heads or cut felt. It was initially acquired in the late 1990s from the U.S. avant-garde modern jewelry exhibition space Jewelers' Werk based in Washington D.C., which is printed on the included original black box with gold text. The versatile necklace that fastens with a handcrafted filigree floral clasp enables the wearer to choose from a wide variety of objects that can be pierced by the removable prong-set sparkly fuschia studs--from felt balls to folded origami paper--to attach to the likewise removable oxidized sterling cups. The perhaps morganite or crystal studs, whose silver ends are not visible after affixing such objects, can be mixed or interchanged with your own earring stud(s) or dangling pieces to enable more movement when worn. As shown in photos, a buyer can avoid the contact of such interchangeable objects with long hair by removing studded cups towards the back of the neck, whereby symmetrical sterling-stud fasteners that serve to link the chain necklace will discreetly remain. If the collector would like to use all of the sterling cups that surround the neck, one of their studs is missing its crystal, which can be replaced if entirely pink stones are preferred. We photographed the necklace populated with fresh and dehydrating daisy heads, which slowly wilt or dry while worn. With inspiration from TheMet current museum exhibition featuring beautiful contemporary clothes designed to show the passage of time, along with some of its archived fragile fashion based on the fiction-inspired theme "The Garden Of Time...

For Trifari by mid-century, its artistic director French-born Alfred Philippe designed this yellow-gold set including the seven-bar linked collar with central invisibly-set diamante,...

All featuring white cat's-eyes, the 21 gray 3mm ball-cut moonstones of this necklace are beaded symmetrically on this antique choker between stations of shiny 14-karat gold-filled tu...

Magnificent platinum necklace. This necklace is designed with 22 oval Chrome Tourmalines. Each stone is framed with round brilliant Diamonds. A single marquis and two round brillian...

This stunning 18 karat white gold necklace was crafted for Cellini NYC by Italy's renowned Carlo Barberis known for his creativity and elegant touches of fantasy. The necklace is designed with 33 round sections,each set with 4 marquise cut and 1 round center stone. The semi -precious stones are amethyst, blue topaz, pink tourmaline, citrine and peridot. Set together giving us an array of candy colored...

THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY ORIGINAL OSCAR DE LA RENTA HAUTE COUTURE RUNWAY NECKLACE OF SUPERB QUALITY STYLE AND IMPACT! THE NECKLACE HAS A DRAMATIC THREE DIMENSIONAL FLOWER MOTIF DES...

A beautiful 18 karat yellow gold and platinum Diamond necklace designed by Tilson Gem Designs for their Chaavae collection. The necklace is des...