Vintage antique Circa 1900 honey cognac color amber cross faceted 'buttons' riveted on to a gold gilt or rolled gold on brass frame. Most likely Russian, Polish or Baltic area.
2 1/2" X 1 5/8". How it sparkles.
The carved faceted bead button pieces riveted on to the gold gilt frame are 9mm.
Chain: newer gold fill 20". Very good preowned condition for age! Please view image 2 for what appears to be some crazing...
A beautiful Art Deco period 18k white gold filigree and genuine diamonds lady's ring circa 1920. This lacy basketweave size 5-3/4 or 575 ring has three diamonds, including a 20 point antique brilliant cut diamond and two ~5 point brilliant cut diamonds (all VS clarity, G-H colour)...
A fabulous vintage Chinese sterling bracelet with large jade cabochons and beautifully detailed figural decorations executed in a layered shadowbox technique, with an openwork panel over a backing panel. Each of the four figures are different. Marked MADE IN CHINA in a diamond shaped cartouche, with an illegible word before the word China. Tests positive for sterling silver. Circa 1900 - 1930. Very substantial at 3.1 ounces/88 grams and drapes beautifully because of its weight...
This is a fine pair of antique elongated oval shaped chalcedony and sterling silver double-sided cufflinks. The stones have a beautiful white opalescent color, marked on back STERLING, circa early 20th century; Measurements: 3/4 in. long. Condition is excellent.
Uno A Erre modernist sterling silver pendant necklace
Italy
c. 1960 - 70
Chain measures 15 1/2" long extended
Pendant - 2 3/8" tall including bale
Fully hallmarked
Very good vintage condition
A 14k rhodolite garnets and diamond flower head ring from the 1970s. This size 5-1/4 ring features six (tested) ruby pink rhodolite garnets and a central 2 point diamond in a flower shape 5/16" across setting. This ring is stamped 14K, it weighs 1.6 grams and it is in excellent condition with no dents, bends, corrosion, losses, damage or repairs...
A heavy 18K yellow gold fob Etruscan-style fob, charm or pendant in the form of an ancient Greco-Roman amphora. The gold surfaces are covered in an ornate pattern of twisted rope and rosettes. The upper shoulders of the urn are set with a pair of cabochon citrines of dark amber color and the lower portion is set with a pair of cabochon garnets. The design is finished by a pair of rope-twist handles. The charm is marked “750” for 18K.
Origin: Italy, ca. 1960...
In the 1960s and 1970s, Ciner specialized in costume jewelry inspired by the enameled gold and jeweled figural animal designs of the fine jewelry maker
David Webb (these days Roberto Cavalli is the contemporary master of the costume version of this look). This piece is circa 1975. It is marked
CINER, but so faintly on the tongue of the clasp that I was unable to get a clear photo. It did come from an estate with other signed Ciner pieces...
A very attractive pair of 14K white gold cufflinks, the arched faces featuring center rows of channel-set rectangular cut blue sapphires flanked on either side by a row of pave-set round brilliant diamonds. The sapphires have intense, medium-dark blue color and the diamonds are graded at G/H color with SI2 clarity...
Phyllis Mark modernist aluminum kinetic necklace
1970s
Pendant - 5 1/4" x 3 1/8"
Neck ring measures 14 3/4" round
This necklace is part of a small series of pendants that the renowned sculptor designed during the early 1970's
Marked on verso Phyllis Mark '71
Very good vintage condition with minor surface scratches
Betty Cooke modernist jewelry
Sterling silver and onyx bracelet with 14K gold rivets
Interior circumference 8" with flexibility
Width - 5 /16"
Excellent condition
This traditional Miao Chinese Minority hair pin would have been worn by young woman for festival. The butterfly motif is in reference to the Miao creation myth.
The hair pin is 5 inches long.
A pair of vintage modernist earrings by Winifred Mason Chenet in copper and brass.
According to published reports Winifred Mason Chenet was an African American woman hand crafting jewelry in Greenwich Village. She worked with and trained Art Smith, a well respected African American modernist jeweler. She believed that each piece should be unique and distinctive.
These earrings have two parts, the top is smooth polished copper and the bottom has a coiled brass overlay...
A beautiful 18K gold fancy-link long chain necklace. The links are fashioned in an ornate Renaissance revival style. The chain can be worn at full length, or the clasp can be attached to an open link partway down the necklace and a pendant suspended from the final link. The necklace is marked twice with French 18K marks and an illegible maker’s mark.
Origin: France, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent. Dimensions: 30-1/2” long. Weight: 18.3 grams.
An elegant Art Nouveau bracelet worked in 18K gold, each link is the form of a pansy enclosed in a scrolling border. The Victorian floriography (the “language of flowers”), the pansy represented the sentiment “think of me.” Jewels with pansies were often given as a romantic gesture or by the parents of a young woman upon her marriage. The bracelet is stamped with 18K fineness marks and an unidentified goldsmith’s mark.
A nice pair of vintage 14K yellow gold cufflinks, the faces designed as a pair of discs joined by a diamond-shaped reserve. Each of the discs is engraved in a starburst motif, while the reserves feature oval star sapphire cabochons. The sapphires have good translucency and even, grayish-blue coloring. The stars are very distinct, bright and well-centered...
Superb Retro 18K yellow gold and platinum duette brooch set wtih diamonds and rubies. The design is an exciting overlap of scrolled gold ribbons, the ends accented with platinum and pave-set with round-cut diamonds. The center of the brooch is set with a cluster of prong-set round-cut rubies. The back of the brooch features a mechanism that allows the piece two be disassembled into two separate smaller pins. This "duette" mechanism was used only on the finest pieces during the Retro period. ...
A rare sterling silver cuff bracelet by Salvador Teran with a shadowbox design.
Marked Salvador, Sterling, Mexico, and Design 165. Pre Eagle. Measures approximately 5 1/4" around, with a 1 1/4" opening and 7/8" at the widest. Made to fit snuggly. There is no give so can not be adjusted.
Has some tarnish, dents and scratches. It is a little bent. See photo.
Lays comfortably on the wrist. Heavy and well constructed. Striking design.
Estate Jewelry (9283)
