French Cut Jewelry

Perfect with everyday wear, this charming vintage Art Deco revivalist design pendant features brilliant-cut diamonds surrounded by emerald...

These Art Deco style drop earrings are absolutely stunning, extraordinary. Over 5 carats of vivid and exceptional emeralds border the edge of earrings. And 0.89 carats of fine diamon...

The Following Item we are offering is A Magnificent Beautiful Large French Pair of Empire Style Handcut Green Baccarrat Style Benito Diamond Cut Crystal Bronze Centerpiece...

This antique pattern of lines, or rays radiating from the centrally positioned Diamond are an absract starburst effect visualized by the maker of this exceptional, vintage Art Deco...

This Art Deco-style emerald eternity band exudes a sleek and sophisticated aesthetic. Adorned with 0.80-carat spring green emeralds that catch the light beautifully, it features a ...

A unique Harem ring from the the late Victorian (ca1900s) era! This unusual 18kt/Platinum piece features a harem design comprised of 3 stacked bands that...

Emerald and French cut diamonds are a favorite combination at MMNY. These custom large drops are a true heirloom purchase. Two Colombi...

Exquisite one of a kind Mindi Mond Emerald french cut drops… 2 Pear Mixed Cut Colombian Emeralds = approx. 4.15 carats total Origin: Colombia, Treatment: Minor oil AGL Report: 110734...

A marvelous design of symmetry along with accents of vibrant color make this Art Deco inspired brooch, masterfully hand in 14k white gold. Frosted with shimmering diamonds, on each s...

Colombian emerald, diamond and platinum antique Art Deco ring, c. 1930. The center stone weighs an approximately .47 cts., is a very fi...

A pair of Art Deco style emerald and diamond drop earrings, set with round French cut emerald open circle suspended from a row of round diamond. A really useful everyday ear stud tha...

FACTORY / HOUSE: Birks of Canada STYLE / REFERENCE: Art Deco Diamond Emerald METAL / MATERIAL: Platinum CIRCA / YEAR: 1930's DIMENSIONS / SIZE: Length ...

These art deco bar dangle earrings are the epitome of vintage-inspired elegance featuring mesmerizing geometric patterns feature with emeralds and diamonds. Information Metal: 14K W...

This Art-Deco engagement ring is completely spectacular! The vibrant color stone of emeralds are specialty cut to surround the excellent round brilliant cut center diamond, which is ...

These Art-Deco stud earrings are completely spectacular! The vibrant color stone (you can select Blue Sapphire, Emerald, Ruby) is a specialty cut to surround the excellent emerald cu...

Perfect with everyday wear, these charming vintage Art Deco revivalist design stud earrings feature a pair of brilliant cut diamonds surrounded by bright blue sapphire and emerald fo...

Inspired by the Art Deco period, this Aimée ring features 0.86 carats of alternate round brilliant cut diamonds and baguette emerald, elegantly framed by a millgrain edge. This white...

This art deco bar link bracelet is the epitome of vintage-inspired elegance featuring mesmerizing geometric patterns feature with emeralds and diamonds. Bracelet Information Metal: ...

These art deco bar dangle earrings and link bracelet are the epitome of vintage-inspired elegance featuring mesmerizing geometric patterns feature with emerald and diamonds. Earrin...

These Art-Deco style stud earrings are completely spectacular! The vibrant color stone (you can select Blue Sapphire, Emerald, Ruby) are specialty cut to surround the excellent round...

Item Details: This Tutti Frutti style bracelet features links with emeralds, sapphires, rubies and diamonds in a channel set design. Circa: 1980s Metal Type: 14k gold Weight: 9.5 gr...

Perfect with everyday wear, this charming vintage Art Deco revivalist design pendant features brilliant-cut diamonds surrounded by French cut emerald for red rose petals finished loo...

A French Verney Emerald and Diamond Cocktail Ring with appx. 9.50 carats of Diamonds. The dimensions of the emerald are 11.45 x 8.20 MM. The ring size is 5.50 US. The total weight of...

Original Art Deco era French Cut Diamond & Emerald Toi et Moi Engagement Ring composed of platinum. The French Cut diamond is 1.51 carats, GIA certified H color/SI2 clarity. The AGL certified Emerald Cut Natural Colombian Emerald is 1.02 carats. With an additional 6 Single Cut diamonds set into the shoulders weighing approximately 0.40 carats in total. Stamped 'Traub Orange Blossom' for Traub Manufacturing Company in Detroit, MI and their Engagement Ring line 'Orange Blossom'. Circa 1920's. Accompanied by a GIA Report & AGL Gem...

Beautiful fine detail and craftsmanship surely makes this ring special. Matching French cut emeralds are set in channel setting with fine milgrain and framed with colorless diamonds....

Luxuriant and colorful, this Aimée bracelet features alternating triple baguette emerald and round brilliant-cut diamonds. 18K white gold lends security to the classic Art-Deco style...

A fine and impressive contemporary 0.70Ct natural emerald and 0.63Ct diamond, 18k white gold cocktail ring; part of our contemporary emerald jewelry collection. This impressive emerald dress ring...

Glimmering with diamonds and drama, this vintage-inspired Art Deco style ring will have heads turning. Crafted in platinum, this shimmering look features three round diamonds wrapped in sapphire French cut emerald...

Created and designed by Sophia D. This Art Deco inspired ring features an emerald cut center diamond weighing 3.58 carats surrounded with green emerald stones with the total weight o...

Luxuriant and colorful, this Aimée bracelet features alternating triple French cut emerald and round brilliant-cut diamonds. 18K white gold lends security to the classic Art-Deco sty...

Absolutely stunning earrings from the early 20th century. They sit so perfectly on the ear without the slightest pulling. I reference these earrings as the perfect dangle. Gemst...

These earrings are made in Platinum and feature Emeralds, Rubies Sapphires and Diamonds. They are 2 1/4" long and have an Egyptian influence and are exquisite. They feature 2.91 Ca...

1950s Retro Emerald Eternity Band - 18 Karat Yellow Gold, Colombian Emeralds, Diamonds Features: 2.25 millimeter wide band 0.25 carat t...

Emerald Diamond and Enamel Modern Brooch "Lovari" Centered with a Vibrant Green Emerald Cut Emerald weighing 1.00 carats approximately Twenty Round Brilliant Cut Diamonds weighing ....

Antique Art Deco 1.30ct Emerald & Diamond Wedding Engagement Anniversary Platinum Ring Band. Gift-wrap your finger in chic and truly splendid, fa...

Mellerio Paris, A French Gold, Diamonds, Silver-Gilt, Rock Crystal, Enamel, Emerald, Lapis Lazuli, Agate, Emerald, and Obsidian Polo Player, Carved Horse Sculpture, Jeweled Mounted Object. An extremely rare and unique, one of a kind French Carved Horse Sculpture, Jeweled Mounted Object sculpture "CHEVAUX DE LEGENDE", "A Legendary Horse" by Mellerio, Paris, circa 1999. Sitting on black obsidian base, the solid rock-crystal slab is finely applied with a carved obdisian hardstone horse and polo player, mounted in 18k gold, brilliant -cut diamonds, emaralds, enamel, lapis lazuli, and agate, .The obsidian base with a plaque engraved: CHEVAUX DE LEGENDE" / MELLERIO DITS MELLER PARIS / 5003 DIV The piece is in excellent condition and comes with a custom made wood case made for transport. It's very elegant and has French hallmarks throughout. A truly magnificent piece. Measures 12" high x 8" wide x 4" deep Founded in France in 1613 by the descendants of Italian immigrants from the Vigezzo Valley in the north of Italy, Mellerio is one of the oldest jewellery houses in Europe. The family business soon attracted the attention of the Royal Court and Marie Antoinette herself reportedly purchased a precious bracelet featuring 7 cameos surrounded by rubies in 1780. Later on, in the 19th century, Mellerio became the official supplier of the French Royal family and the Court of Netherland. Mellerio creates many jewellery items, all set with rare gems such as peridots, amethysts, aquamarines, citrines and topaz, applying for a patent, the flexible stem, a very supple and light jewellery mechanism. Mellerio remains also well known for their spectacular series of Art Nouveau jewels, created at the beginning of the 20th century, as well as for the creation of trophies rewarding some of the greatest footfall and tennis players of history. In 1993, the jewellery house launched their first watch collection. Today, Mellerio has stores in Paris, Japan and Hong Kong. July 14, 1789: this date is known throughout the world as the beginning of the French Revolution. According to a ledger belonging to House of Mellerio, this was also the day that the jeweler sold a golden key to the Comte de Coutance for 10 livres. This ledger, as well as inventories dating as far back as 1768, are the jeweler’s oldest archives. These archives have continued to grow over the years, as the House, established on rue de la Paix in Paris, still lives on today, still in the hands of the same family from Craveggia, in the North of Italy. The tumultuous history of the Mellerio family in France probably goes as far back as the Italian wars of the Renaissance, but the first official document proving their commercial activity in Paris dates back to 1613. This document is the famous royal warrant awarded by Marie de Medici to a number of Italian families established along the rue des Lombards, including the Mellerios, allowing them to sell “small jewelery items”, therefore granting them a small exception to the traditional monopoly enjoyed by Parisian jewelers. At that time, powerful corporations regulated the operations and customs of Parisian business, but thanks to this exceptional warrant, the Mellerios managed to escape the confines of this framework. Today, this wax-sealed document is kept at the city hall of Craveggia. From 1613 to the Revolution, the Mellerios lived between France and Italy. The corporations tried many times to put an end to their trade privileges, but all in vain, as a dynasty of sovereigns renewed the warrant. Always marrying and often retiring in Craveggia, the Mellerios continued to maintain their jewelry business in Paris. At first, they did this without a shop. Wearing backpacks (wooden boxes divided into small compartments where jewels were kept), they would tour town fairs around Paris and royal castles. This is how Jean-Baptiste Mellerio (1765-1850) is said to have sold a bracelet set with rubies and Antique cameos to Marie-Antoinette, which still exists today. Many elements seem to prove the veracity of this anecdote. The queen was particularly fond of cameos, which cover the entire background of her famous jewelry cabinet, and ruby was her favorite stone after diamond. The famous bracelet, reacquired a few years ago by the House of Mellerio, is indeed an 18th century jewel, set with antique cameos representing the profiles of Roman emperors. Two branches of the family were operating in Paris during this time, under the reign of Louis XVI: that of Jean-François (1746-1828), the paternal ancestor of the current Mellerios, and that of Jean-Baptiste (1765-1850). The French Revolution forced them to return to Italy. However, both Jean-Baptiste and François Mellerio (1772-1843), who was the son of Jean-François, were eventually able to return to Paris after the founding of the Consulate. Jean-Baptiste opened a shop at the Iron Crown of rue Vivienne, and François opened his at the Palais des Tuileries, rue du Coq Saint-Honoré. His well-organized order books give an idea of his high-ranking clientele during the “Old Regime”, among which were the Comte and Comtesse Octave de Segur, the Marquise (later Duchess) de Tourzel, former governess of the royal children, and her daughter, the Comtesse de Bearn, the Craufurds -who organized the flight to Varennes, the Duc and Duchess de Gramont, the Comtesse de Boigne, and Madame de Souza, Talleyrand’s mistress. We also see the names of the imperial family: Empress Josephine, the Queen of Holland, Princess Elisa, Caroline and Pauline. At that time, the House of Mellerio specialized, among other things, in the trade of antique cameos, a newly fashionable genre of jewel that captured the imagination of all the princesses and noble women of the time. The years of the Restauration and July Monarchy were among the most glorious. The Bourbons were back on the throne, and the clientele of the House of Mellerio had regained its former wealth. Mellerio supplied Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans, as well as his mother, wife and sister, with sumptuous jewels, including a set of emeralds made piece by piece, while the Duke of Bourbon, last prince of the House of Condé, offered diamonds to his mistress, the scheming Baronne de Feucheres, and Monsieur de LaFayette also bought cameos for one of his granddaughters. For the first time, Mellerio ventured into the world of arts in 1815, when Carlotta Grisi, a famous dancer who created Giselle, as well as an actress named Rachel, bought jewels at the Mellerio store on rue de la Paix. 1848 marked a new turning point. France once again became a Republic. François Mellerio handed the company over to his son, Jean, and the latter decided to travel to Spain to build a new clientele. He later became one of the jewelers of the royal family, and met Eugénie de Montijo, who remained a faithful client when she became empress of the French people. The Imperial years were lavish. During the Second Empire, Paris was a pageant of crinoline dresses designed by Worth, while jewels by Mellerio, Worth’s neighbour on the rue de la Paix, adorned the noble women of the Tuileries court. The Empress bought pearls. Mathilde Bonaparte...