The Primrose tiara, circa 1830 and later

Designed as an articulated spray of en tremblant daisies and leaves, the gold and silver framework set throughout with cushion-shaped and circular-cut diamonds, converts to three brooches, inner length approximately 413mm.

Exhibited

Wartski, One Hundred Tiaras, An Evolution of Style, 1800-1990, 5 - 19 March 1997, no. 44
Boston, Crowning Glories: Two Centuries of Tiaras, Museum of Fine Arts, 1 March - 25 June 2000

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, G. Munn ed., One Hundred Tiaras, An Evolution of Style, 1997, pp. 22-23, illustrated
Exhibition catalogue, D. Scarisbrick, Tiara, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2000, pp. 70-71, illustrated