This was a fun project. We often see Comedy and Tragedy expressed in rather simplistic renderings, but rarely do we see such expressive faces as these, hand carved in Idar-Oberstein, one in natural rock crystal quartz and the other in black onyx. To create the mounting, our goldsmiths hand forged and assembled more than 75 separate gold parts and added 41 small diamonds. A little spray of diamonds highlights the “laugh lines” on the comic mask, and a diamond “tear” accents the other. Worn pinned at the shoulder, the style of this dramatic brooch is reminiscent of the glamorous 1940’s.
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