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Antique Cufflinks with Sapphires in Gold, Berlin around 1900

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Antique Cufflinks with Sapphires in Gold, Berlin around 1900

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Berlin in the days of the Kaiserreich: Imagine a busy street where the new electric streetcars squeak along their metal rails. Elegantly hatted gentlemen stroll by at a quick pace under the window displays, and now and then a lady approaches in clacking heels, fashionably dressed in a long suit and with her hair pinned up. On quieter days, the strollers hear the babbling of the Spree Canal. Here, at the Gertraudenbrücke, lies an imposing neo-Gothic house, behind which a church tower stretches into the blue sky and chimes on the hour. The impressive house, the "Juwelpalais", is the headquarters of the jewelry merchant for whom it was built: Wilhelm Müller, a company known beyond the borders of Berlin, sells fine goods in the latest style of its time from Gertraudenstraße. The cufflinks here also bear Wilhelm Müller's company mark. Timeless and classic, the cufflinks date from around 1900, each with an oval decorative element connected by a bar to the elongated toggle. The sides are shield-shaped with a marbled surface and a delicate tendril in relief. Decentrally, a natural sapphire shimmers in an oval facet cut in a recessed setting. The buttons are forged from 8-karat gold and shine with an additional fine gold plating in a warm yellow tone. The cufflinks, which found their way to us here in Berlin, are beautifully preserved and can still make a stylish eye-catcher on a shirt.

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The years around 1900: luxury and pure joie de vivre had been elevated to the ideal of the first decades of the 20th century: The new forms of Art Nouveau enriched art and the decorative arts with decorative forms never seen before. Centers quickly emerged in Europe during these years, each taking a different approach to the expression of the new style. While in France the School of Nancy led the way and floral motifs were transformed into spectacular new art forms, in Vienna the Wiener Werkstätte emerged with a stricter conception of ornamentation and created total works of art that were to influence almost every area of human life, and thus almost every European center found its very own expression of this always somewhat exciting style.

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€ 498.00 ^*

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