An important diamond waveform tiara, Cartier, 1904

Designed as a wreath of twinned sprays of leaves, set throughout with brilliant-cut diamonds, with pendant larger diamonds to suggest flowers, detachable into four brooches, accompanied by brooch fittings, inner length approximately 365mm.

Exhibited

London, V&A Museum, Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution, 20 November 2021 - 8 May 2022

Literature

G. Munn, Tiaras: A History of Splendour, Antique Collectors Club, 2001, pp. 352-353, illustrated