Gold, colored stone and enamel necklace, Carlo and Arthur Giuliano, circa 1895

The front decorated with a deep fringe of girandole drops decorated with scrolls and volutes applied with black and white piqué enamel, the sides with shorter similar drops, set throughout with sapphires, rubies, chrysoberyls, near colorless diamonds and diamonds of brownish hue, length 14¾ inches, signed C.& A.G. With original fitted gilt-embossed leather case by Guichard, signed C.& A. Giuliano.

The John Sheldon Collection, Sotheby's London, October 29, 1985, lot 401.

David Bennett and Daniela Mascetti, Understanding Jewellery, p. 219, pl. 296.

Shirley Bury, Jewellery 1789-1910: The International Era, Vol. II, 1862-1910, p. 609, col. pl. 154.