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| Guillotine earrings c.1793 |
These macabrey bits of gilded bling from 1793 depict the Phrygian cap on top, and the crowned, decapitated heads of the king and queen dangling below. The royal couple were among 16,594 executed between June 1793 and July 1794 during the French Revolution.
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