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THE BESSBOROUGH DIAMOND TIARAAN IMPRESSIVE CHAUMET ART DECO DIAMOND TIARA
Lot 534 The Regal Splendour of the European Courts

THE BESSBOROUGH DIAMOND TIARAAN IMPRESSIVE CHAUMET ART DECO DIAMOND TIARA

Closed17 May 2023

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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.