Paris - Beaded Necklaces

This 1940's cultured Akoya pearl necklace showcases 73 luminous and absolutely gorgeous Japanese cultured Akoya pearls. Freshly strung o...

Exquisite Chinese sterling Lapis figural enamel necklace c 1930s The fabulous Chinese sterling necklace merges two extraordinary designs into...

Beautiful and unique necklace featuring faceted Aquaprase beads hand-strung and finished with a 22k yellow gold toggle clasp. Aquaprase is one of the most recently discovered gemston...

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Fine Quality Japanese Akoya Pearl Necklace with Diamond Clasp 21.5" 18k White Gold 8.5 mm Certified $4,950 311036 This is a Unique Custom Made Glamorous Piece of Jewelry! Nothing ...

Vintage Cultured Akoya Pearl Strand Necklace Length 18" With 18Kt white Gold Clasp matching stud earrings are available in separate listing This marvelous vintage Pearl necklace...

Colored Cultured Pearl White Gold and Diamond clasp Necklace. Total length: 18.11 inches (46.00 centimeters). Total weight: 103.83 grams.

18K White gold slider necklace featuring three South Sea Pearls measuring 11-13 mm. Great for stacking layers! Pearls can be changed to Tahitian, Pink or Golden upon request. Price ...

Graduated South Sea Pearl Necklace. Thirty-five high luster, white south sea pearls with shimmering overtones of silver and rose, compose this 19 -1/2 inch knotted necklace. The pear...

Hakimoto By Jewel Of Ocean 29 White South Sea Pearl 16x13mm Necklace 18K White Gold 1.79 Carts Diamonds Clasp High Quality Australian South Sea High Luster Clean Face 17" Long and 1...

Hakimoto By Jewel Of Ocean 18K South Sea Strand Necklace 18K White Gold Weight (g): 92.2 Cultured South Sea Pearl Pearl Size: 13X11mm Pearl Shape: Round Body color: Pinkish Whit...

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...