Created by the distinguished Parisian jeweller Chaumet in 1931, the Bessborough Tiara is a truly magnificent piece. It features white diamonds mounted in platinum and set in an Art Deco style of clean symmetrical intersecting lines, rising to a 5.6 carat marquise-cut floating central diamond.

For nearly two centuries, Chaumet's tiaras had adorned aristocracy and ladies of the European court. So the jewellery house was a natural choice for Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, when he commissioned Chaumet to craft a tiara for his wife, Roberte de Neuflize Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough, on the occasion of his appointment as the new Governor General of Canada. Ponsonby was the third child of Edward, 8th Earl of Bessborough, and his wife, Blanche. Together their family tree holds some impressive weight, including Sir Josiah Guest, great-uncle of Sir Winston Churchill, John, 1st Earl Spencer and famed society swan Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire.

Marquise-shaped diamond, single and old-cut diamonds, platinum (French marks), 1931, maker's mark

Size/Dimensions: inner circumference 52.5 cm
Gross weight: 136.5 grams

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