This necklace is awesome. Like get-outta-town, shut-the-front-door awesome. You are forewarned.
This extraordinarily fabulous necklace was made in 1880. It looks a little like the jeweler did drugs while designing it, but I mean that in the best possible way. It’s exuberantly cheerful.
The necklace consists of a series of cushion cut stones in openwork floral shaped double diamond borders, with smaller five petal flowerhead motifs in between. The smaller flowerheads each have a ruby center and diamonds on each petal. This chain suspends a pendant of similar design with one large garnet and a number of small diamonds.
Gems in this necklace: diamonds, rubies, garnets, white sapphires, aquamarines, yellow zircons, pink topaz, peridot, tourmaline, and orange topaz.
This necklace is currently listed on the S.J. Philips website. All images and info are thanks to S.J. Philips.
This necklace was made in France in the 1920’s. If you look carefully at the design, you can see that it has a dragonfly-inspired motif. It has 54 excellent-color diamonds, a total of 14 ct. The front is in platinum; the back in 18K gold. It is accented with 7 natural pearls. The full necklace measures 16 inches, with a large (6 inch) center piece.
This necklace is for sale at Elle W Collection,