Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Vintage Panel Bracelet Turquoise Amethyst Rhinestones Chunky - St. Petersburg

Vintage Panel Bracelet Turquoise Amethyst Rhinestones Chunky - St. Petersburg

Vintage Panel Chunky Bracelet w/ Turquoise & Amethyst Rhinestones

This is a stunning and unusual large vintage costume jewelry bracelet with intricately designed curved panels with a rope design border. Each panel has an amethyst glass marquis shaped rhinestone or navette in the center with a simulated or faux turquoise bead on each side set in the middle of a flower. The stones are set in an open cut filigree style panel silver metal link that measures. There are 12 panels in total to make up a magnificent piece of art jewelry. You can see the incredible workmanship in the close up pictures. This bracelet is from the 1960s.

Vintage Rare Moser Enameled Gilded Rubina Cruet with Matching Stopper

 Vintage Rare Moser Enameled Gilded Rubina Cruet with Matching Stopper

Vintage Rare Moser Enameled Gilded Rubina Cruet with Matching Stopper
  • Measures 6 and 3/4 inches tall and 2 1/2 inches at its widest
  • Turn of the century glass Rubina that has been both enameled and gilded with Floral pattern. Large flowers with lavender and white enamled flowers and gold leaves hang on the side with a gold band sitting on the top which has tine black lined flowers etched inside the gold.  This stopper simply has a row of white enameled dots. The edge of the spout it painted in gold as well.

Mary Gregory Cobalt Blue Tumble Up Bedside Pitcher Set

Mary Gregory Cobalt Blue Tumble Up Bedside Pitcher Set

A Mary Gregory antique cobalt blue tumble up set. Scene is of a young boy fishing. The pitcher has a ground pontil and one minor scuff area above the small pine tree. Glass pitcher stands 8T x 5W inches and had no damage or flaws. Tumble up hold 32 ounces. The glass cup has the same artistic image and is flawless. It's dimensions are 4T x 3W inches and holds 6 ounces. Together they weigh 3 shipping pounds. The cobalt glass is circa 1875, very thin and blown glass pontil fragment. The white hand painted scene is completely intact.

Deep GREEN Wire Wrapped TREE OF LIFE Necklace Pendant Fused - Central Texas



Lovely Green Fused Glass TREE OF LIFE Pendant

Wire wrapped and Beaded

This pretty Tree of Life pendant was created using a gorgeous swirled green fusing glass that was cut and fire polished in my kiln. The piece was completed by wiring the beautiful antique gold finished tree charm to the glass with golden brass wire. I also wired glass beads of different shapes and sizes to the top for accent.

Melanesia Massim Oceanic Primitive Art Trobriands Handcarved - Boca Raton


Rare item, a masterpiece of handcarving by very primitive culture: Melanesia Massim Kula Trobriand hand carved Kwila wood Large Reef  Rock Fish statue.
 This is a beautiful completely hand carved hand crafted Melanesian (remote Massim region) kwila piece seen on photo 1 to 11 with many inserts of  circles of mother of pearl, these little circles or tears of pearl shell are glued with natural gum glues or sap obtained from trees after an insert is first created to fit them, from the isolated , beautifully carved by a local master carver with rudimentary tools. We show pictures of people and yam houses we took when we go there, and other examples of Trobriand hand carved art on the following photo.