Vintage Art Deco Jakob Bengel attributed machine age chrome with green jade effect and orange / red glass bead chunky statement necklace

Vintage Jakob Bengel attributed necklace from the 1930s with a fabulous Art Deco machine age design. The necklace consists of bright jade-green and brick red / orange glass beads, with smooth, shiny silver tone chrome cup bead caps. There are two tulip shaped green glass beads with floral bead caps with a leaf or petal design.

It has a length of about 19 inches and fastens with a silver tone screw barrel clasp. It is in good vintage condition, with only minor signs of wear.

Jakob Bengel was a chain and costume jewellery factory, founded by Jakob Bengel in 1873 in Idar-Oberstein, Germany.

Until 1920, the company specialised in the production of watch chains and chatelaines (pendants for pocket watches). In the 1920s and 1930s, it became one of the leading manufacturers of fashion jewellery in the Art Deco style.

It was during the Bauhaus and Art Deco period that designers were looking to obtain new materials and inspiration to produce costume jewellery. Inspired by French Avant-Garde and other fashion trendsetters such as Coco Chanel, Bengel started to produce experimental jewellery. The pieces, catalogued 1924-1939, combined brass and chrome with geometric shapes of coloured galalith.