Gold, multi-colored sapphire and enamel necklace, Carlo and Arthur Giuliano, circa 1900

Designed as pairs of gold ivy leaves applied with translucent green enamel, each flanking a circular sapphire of greenish hue, spaced by larger cushion-shaped white and pink sapphires alternately supporting fringes of pear-shaped stones set singly and in clusters of three, length 15 inches, signed C.& A.G. 

A similar necklace of foliate inspiration, belonging to Her Majesty the Queen, is illustrated by Munn, Castellani and Giuliano, Revivalist Jewellers of the 19th Century, pl. 170.

See also the footnote to lot 117.