Cartier Diamond Waveform Tiara

A diamond waveform tiara made by Cartier in 1904. Sotheby’s describes it 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.”

Queen Alexandra’s Kokoshnik Tiara

One famous piece of jewelry belonging to Queen Elizabeth II is the diamond Kokoshnik Tiara, with its unique sun rays made of white and yellow gold. It was this ornament that inspired the “Russian style” trend in jewelry outside of Russia. Queen Alexandra and Mary of Teck in Russian Kokoshnik. The tiara has a fascinating…

Romanov’s Wedding Diadem

Grand Duchess Elizabeth Mavrikievna in this Romanov’s Wedding Diadem tiara during her wedding in 1884. This stunningly beautiful tiara that belonged to the Empress Maria Feodorovna (1759-1828), the wife of Paul I, was made in the early 19th century in the form of a coconut with a huge pink diamond in the center. At that…

The Tiara of the Marchionesses of Zetland

The Tiara of the Marchionesses of Zetland Marchioness of Zetland Diamond Tiara, designed as a sequence of graduated foliate scrolls all curling towards a central angular palmette, set throughout with circular-, rose-cut and pear-shaped diamonds, issuing a central pear-shaped and circular-cut diamond cluster, inner circumference approximately 538mm. The diamond tiara is made circa 1900.

Lorraine Schwartz Jewels

Blake Lively, a co-chair of the Met Gala, paid tribute to New York City with her copper and teal Atelier Versace Gown and Lorraine Schwartz jewels. The actress explained in a video for Vogue how the colors were a tribute to the natural copper color and patina tone of the Statue of Liberty. Lorraine’s earrings composed of…

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…