Decadent Jewels Amethyst Chrysophase Spinal Onyx Sautoir Tassel Gold filled

Beautiful piece by Marina J. This sizeless Sautoir is made with gorgeous faceted Amethyst beads that display pigmented Purple hues, all woven together with white Cultured Pearls. Mea...

Beautiful piece by Marina J. This sizeless Sautoir is made with gorgeous faceted Amethyst beads that display pigmented Purple hues, all woven together with white Cultured Pearls. Mea...

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...

Marina J.'s unique art deco style necklace features a variety of shapes: sphere pearls, cylindrical onyx beads, coral teardrop beads, and more. This striking piece mimics jewelry fro...

This gorgeous colorful and multi shaped, multi jewel Sautoir features different shaped high luster Pearls, Amethyst, Citrine and Aquamarine beau...

Gorgeous piece hand made by Marina J. This stunning Sautoir is made using multi shaped and colored Semi Precious Stones all strung together with gorgeous high luster Baroque Pearls. Large Green Amethyst, Citrine, London Blue Topaz, Aquamarine, Emeralds and solid 14k Yellow Gold findings adorn this entire Sautoir. Each stone's beautiful facets and translucent quality allow them to shine and radiate beautiful Greens, Blues and Oranges when illuminated by light. Measuring 33.5 inch sans Tassel, each end of this Sautoir meets at solid 14k Yellow Gold Hooks which attach to the solid 14k Yellow Gold Ring Clasp; from which an amazing removable Tassel Hangs. The 5 inch Tassel features a stunning 21.52 CT Oval Cut Green Amethyst set in a 14k Yellow Gold band. Underneath hangs a beautiful Baroque Pearl siting atop a 14k Yellow Gold Seed Pearl Encrusted Roundel, from which Graduated strands of Emeralds...