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Antique cufflinks in the form of theater masks, Paris around 1895


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Antique cufflinks in the form of theater masks, Paris around 1895
Antique cufflinks in the form of theater masks, Paris around 1895
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The poet Charles Baudelaire coined the image of the dandy as we associate him with the artistic scene of the late 19th century, embodied further by eccentric aesthetes such as Oscar Wilde or the painter James McNeill Whistler. "The dandy must direct his whole striving to be sublime without ceasing; he must live and sleep before a mirror," Baudelaire once recorded in his diary. So what could a late 19th-century dandy find more fitting to express his deliberately performative elegance with a twinkle in his eye than a pair of gold cufflinks in the shape of theatrical masks? The present cufflinks are designed with identical showpieces, each depicting a tragedy mask with dramatically distorted face and plaintively open mouth. They are made of high karat gold, which allows the details of the design to stand out due to the matte surface typical of the time. Link chains, also made of high karat gold, connect the showpieces. The cufflinks bear the assay stamps of the city of Paris and were made around the turn of the century before last. They are in very good condition and are an unusual and high quality accessory, suitable as a conversation piece not only during a break in the theater.
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Antique cufflinks in the form of theater masks, Paris around 1895
Tragic!
€ 1,490.00 *
Content 1 piece
Incl. VAT, Shipping
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