There’s an utterly exquisite, unusually glamorous tiara coming up for auction at Sotheby’s and the auction house has done something brilliant that will allow every single one of us to try it on! That’s right, every single one of us.

I promise this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. I would never lie to you about tiaras.

Here it is, in all of its glory!! It’s a delightfully large scale and especially fantastical piece. Let’s get the deets, straight from Sotheby’s:

Dating to the second half of the 19th century, the tiara hails an extraordinary provenance, having belonged to two Royal Collections of Europe.

Likely to have been presented to Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo as a wedding gift on the occasion of her marriage to Amadeo I of Savoy, Duke of Aoste, later King of Spain (1870-1873) in 1867, the tiara, which has remained with the family for over 150 years, is believed to have been created by Musy Padre e Figli – Court Jeweller of Turin, and one of the oldest goldsmiths in Europe.”

This magnificent tiara features a wonderfully majestic motif of graduated scrolls composed of luscious cushion-shaped, circular, and single-cut diamonds.

Continue reading Sotheby’s wants you to try on this tiara! at Diamonds in the Library.