Made by the jeweller Rene Bolvin, hopefully more details will become available closer to the auction in New York on 13 April.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam_Ph%C6%B0%C6%A1ng
She appears to be wearing the necklace (or something at least based upon it) in a drawing of her that appears on a Vietnamese stamp.
Sadly as usual with auction houses nowadays, they prioritise style over substance in the way they have photographed the necklace - displaying it on an angle with the back end of the necklace invisible - hopefully better quality pictures will appear in the catalogue.
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