The Derby Tiara

The Derby Tiara initially created for the Duchess of Devonshire in 1893.

Designed as a series of stylised buds issued from an openwork band, from which issues a sequence of eleven angular palmettes within diamond borders between which sit graduated lotus flowers, set throughout with cushion-shaped, rose- and circular-cut diamonds in gold and silver, in a fitted Carrington & Co. case, inner length approximately 471mm.