THE BESSBOROUGH DIAMOND TIARA AN IMPRESSIVE CHAUMET ART DECO DIAMOND TIARA

Lot 534
17.05.2023 15:00UTC +01:00
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CHF 945 000
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Lot 534 | THE BESSBOROUGH DIAMOND TIARA AN IMPRESSIVE CHAUMET ART DECO DIAMOND TIARA
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CHF 800 000 – 1 500 000
THE BESSBOROUGH DIAMOND TIARA

AN IMPRESSIVE CHAUMET ART DECO DIAMOND TIARA

Marquise-shaped diamond, single and old-cut diamonds, platinum (French marks), 1931, maker's mark



Size/Dimensions: inner circumference 52.5 cm

Gross weight: 136.5 grams





Provenance

Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough (1880-1956) for his wife, Roberte Countess of Bessborough [née Poupart de Neuflize] (1892 - 1979).

The marquise-shaped diamond was offered to the Earl, in 1931, as a gift by the De Beers diamond company when he left his position of director.

Thence by descent through the family.



Literature

D. Scarisbrick, R. Hurel, Chaumet Paris, Deux siècles de création, Paris-Musées, 1998, pp. 138 - 139

Imperial Splendours, The art of Jewellery since the 18th century, Chaumet and The Palace Museum, 2017, p. 89

H. Loyrette, Chaumet, Parisian Jeweler since 1780, Flammarion, Paris, 2017, pp. 174 - 175



Exhibited

Crowning Glories: Two centuries of Tiaras, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, 2000

Dignity and Beauty: The Story of the Tiara, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, and Nigata Bandaijima Museum of Art, Japan, 2007



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