THE BESSBOROUGH DIAMOND TIARAAN IMPRESSIVE CHAUMET ART DECO DIAMOND TIARA
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THE BESSBOROUGH DIAMOND TIARAAN IMPRESSIVE CHAUMET ART DECO DIAMOND TIARA

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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

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.