Vintage Art Deco Style Crystal Tassel Necklace 1960s

A vintage couture Crystal Droplet Necklace from the 1950s, attributed to the parurier Roger Jean-Pierre. The most divine crystals, many fancy cut in navette, ovals and chatons embell...

A striking vintage pearl sautoir, long and lustrous. Vintage Condition: Very good without damage or noteworthy wear. Materials: Glass pearls, rhinestones, metal Fastening: None Appr...

A stylish Vintage Crown Trifari Persian Garden Necklace from Trifari's 1968 Persian Garden collection. Featuring a large central pendant, crafted from gr...

A striking Vintage Grosse Tassle Choker necklace straight out of the 1970s and 1970 to be precise. Crafted in gold plated metal. A crisscross patterned collar gives way to a neck enh...

Dramatic and elegant crystal necklace from the Art Deco period with stone set links and a large crystal pendant drop. Pulls over head with no closure. 28" x .35,". drop adds 2". St...

This exceptionally rare and shimmering necklace was created in the 1930s. It was most likely made in France. Condition Report: Good - There is some loss of coating to some of the ...

This stunning diamond and pearl tassel necklace features an intricate design, combining antique charm with modern elegance. The necklace showcases a 25-string pearl bead tassel dangling from an antique champagne diamond...

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 gems were fuchsia Burmese rubies. In this antique glass-beaded sautoir tassel necklace, 37 unusual fuchsia faux-pearls 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 beads. 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 Gabrielle "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 tricolor sautoir featuring fuchsia spheres could suit 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 tricolor 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...