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Rare Art Deco Upper Arm Cuff in Gold & Onyx, Dated 1925

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Rare Art Deco Upper Arm Cuff in Gold & Onyx, Dated 1925

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Who says that bangles only ever have to be worn on the wrist? A little-known fashion of the wild interwar years was the upper arm bangle - a bangle that also made a fashion statement on the upper arm. The prerequisite for this idea of putting a gold bangle around the upper arm was the change in fashion. The many changes of the time, which also redefined the role of women in society, included a major relaxation of the previously strict dress code. The puffy dresses of the turn of the century, supported by corsets and crinolines, which were more like armor than outerwear, were replaced by more figure-hugging, flowing designs. Suddenly the body became visible: bare arms appeared in public, as did wide necklines and even a visible ankle! An impressive example of this seductive and short-lived fashion can be found in the film costume of Brigitte Helm, the star of Fritz Lang's Metropolis. In the 1932 adventure film The Lady of Atlantis, she wears large bracelets on her wrists and upper arms - her entire body appears golden, as befits the ruler of the legendary city of Atlantis. This suddenly created space for new jewellery - and the yellow gold bangle presented here is therefore hard to imagine in any other era. A beautiful onyx bead is pivotably clamped between the two arms of the bangle, allowing it to be slid effortlessly onto the upper arm. The surface of the bangle is richly decorated with engravings in the Rococo style, an ornamental style that was very popular at the time alongside the modern forms of Art Deco. Inside the bangle is a dedication engraving that tells us that "C." gave this bangle to his beloved "M." in January 1925. The celebrations at which she wore the beautifully preserved piece remain hidden from us. But to this day, the bangle radiates a warm glow and a memory of this exciting time.

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Rococo, the courtly world of elegance and luxury, did not only radiate from France into the world at the end of the 18th century. Even after the end of the Ancien Régime during the French Revolution, this art of lightness and refined taste continued to experience new fashions. At the end of the 19th century, for example, Sissi and Franz Joseph's rooms in the Hofburg in Vienna were decorated in the Rococo style, and an apartment was also built for the same empress in Venice: the KuK royalty was thus able to see itself as the new realm of a Sun King. In the 1920s, the world experienced another Rococo revival. While Art Deco began to celebrate its success elsewhere, room furnishings in this style were once again created in the USA as well as in Europe. This stylistic idiom lent itself so well to a lady's bedroom, garden pavilions and elegant ballrooms that it found numerous applications. As a dreamland of beauty and gallant amusement, the years of the late 18th century remained in the collective memory for a long time. Even Cole Porter transported the protagonist of his musical "Du Barry was a Lady", which premiered in New York in the late 1930s, to the court of Louis XV: love affairs, precious jewellery, high wigs and lively music combined to create a whirlwind of amusing and elegant entertainment.

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