Name/Title
Bead-and-link necklace, faceted peach and amethyst glass with white beadsEntry/Object ID
2025.1.84Description
A single-strand necklace built as a chain of beads joined by gold-tone wire links. The beads alternate in an irregular repeat: faceted translucent peach/pink glass beads, faceted smoky amethyst/purple glass beads, and opaque white marbled (mottled gray-white) beads, each bead wire-linked to the next by looped eye-pins. The clasp is a flat rectangular gold-tone tab clasp. The metal is a warm gold tone; the beads are bright with good faceting.Item Type
NecklaceUse
Belonged to Gertrudis Caraballo GálvezCollection
The Cabrera Arús family collection, Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez collecitionMade/Created
Notes
MAKER: Undetermined. Costume jewelry.
DATE / PERIOD: Not marked; mid-20th century (estimated) for faceted-glass bead-and-link costume jewelry.
ORIGIN: Not established from the object. The faceted pressed/cut glass beads are of a kind made in several centers (the Czech/Bohemian industry prominent among them), and the bead-and-tombak-link construction resembles the documented Jablonec-region method seen in the reference volume — so a Czechoslovak origin is a possibility to weigh, but not established.Materials
Material Notes
MATERIALS: Faceted glass beads (translucent peach/pink and smoky amethyst) and opaque white marbled beads (glass, possibly imitating stone such as howlite/marble); gold-tone base-metal wire links and clasp. Bead-and-eye-pin link assembly.
TECHNIQUES: Beads threaded on wire eye-pins, looped ends joined into a continuous chain; finished with a stamped gold-tone tab clasp. Bead-and-link construction (more durable than single-thread stringing).Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Gertrudis Caraballo GálvezNotes
ownerRelated Places
Place
City
HavanaCountry
CubaRegion
Caribbean, Central AmericaNotes
useResearch Notes
Notes
This is a single-strand bead-and-link necklace combining faceted peach and smoky-amethyst glass with opaque white marbled beads on gold-tone wire links — mid-century costume jewelry of the same wire-linked construction as the cobalt-cube necklace recorded earlier (and distinct from the strung multi-strand necklaces).
Faceted pressed/cut glass beads of this kind were produced in several glass industries (the Czech/Bohemian among the most important), and the bead-and-metal-link construction parallels the Jablonec-region "pressed glass beads on tombak links" method documented in the Museum of Glass and Jewellery reference volume — so a Czechoslovak origin is worth weighing.Created By
María A. Cabrera ArúsCreate Date
October 18, 2025Updated By
María A. Cabrera ArúsUpdate Date
June 14, 2026