Diamond tiara/corsage ornament, early 19th Century

Estimate

36,000 - 48,000 CHF

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Description

inner circumference approximately 265mm, five foliate sprays all detachable accompanied by six detachable brooch pins, later case by Catchpole & Williams, 14 Graftton Street, London W1.

Designed as five foliate sprays, each symbolising one of the three Kingdoms of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, centring on a single rose flower head set en tremblant, emblematic of England, flanked with the thistle and shamrock, symbolising the Kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland, set with old-mine, circular-cut and cushion-shaped diamonds,

Literature

Cf; Jewellery 1789-1910, The International Era, Volume 1, Shirley Bury, The Antique Collectors Club, 1991, page 182, for a detail of George IV's coronation circlet of 1820 by Rundell's illustrating the emblems of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.

Catalogue Note

The United Kingdom of Great Britain came into being on the 1st January 1801 when the Act of Union united Great Britain and Ireland. However the term had been in use since 1707 when the Act of Union incorporated the Kingdoms of England and Scotland and The Principality of Wales into the United Kingdom of Great Britain, excluding the dependencies of The Isle of Man and The Channel Islands. Jewels incorporating the patriotic emblems of the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as single representations have always been popular, especially amongst Coronation regalia, such as George IV diamond and pearl circlet made for the coronation in 1820.