RARE ESTATE CHRISTIAN DIOR GERMANY WIDE GOLD CLEOPATRA NECKLACE~FINE METAL WORK
Fabulous vintage necklace by Christian Dior from the 1960's era. This piece has a wonderful history and provenance which I will briefly write about. The original owner was a model in the 1960's and had some fabulous pieces made for her to wear on the runway and for photo shoots. Some were made by important designers from that period and this is one of them. I will be listing one other necklace I was able to purchase from the family, it's a 60's Kenneth Lane piece, so please take a look at that one also. This one is a very classic, wide, gold, (plated) Egyptian revival Cleopatra collar which is sheer elegance. It looks and feels like genuine gold, if you wear real gold no one will know this is costume jewelry when you wear it. The workmanship is exquisite featuring extremely fine metal work which looks as it was woven tightly together. Very striking. In addition to this there is also fabulous gold beading which is featured all along the bottom edge of the collar. A fine herringbone chain is soldered to the bottom of the necklace falling in a scalloped design draping around and below each beaded area completing the design. It is signed Christian Dior with a copyright symbol on an oval cartouche . It is also stamped Germany in very tiny letters on the spring ring clasp. It is in excellent vintage condition and comes with the original box, however, the box is not in good condition. All of it is there though not completely intact. The creamy satin insert is in excellent vintage condition, very clean with no damage to it. The necklace is curved so it is difficult to measure the length. It is approx. 14" long measuring on the curve and has a 2" extender, so about 16" total length. it is 1" wide without the chain drop length, approx. 1~1/8" long with the chain drop measurement. If you collect the important vintage pieces this one will be a fabulous necklace to add to your collection.
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