tiarascrowns: Kokoshnik tiara, Cartier Paris, 1908. Cartier took up making the ‘kokoshnik&rsqu
tiarascrowns: Kokoshnik tiara, Cartier Paris, 1908. Cartier took up making the ‘kokoshnik’ style of tiara c.1900.They fashioned them with diamond drops suspended from a gallery within an openwork mount.When the wearer moved so did the stones, which increased in size towards the centre. Set in platinum with fifteen pear-shaped diamonds round old cut diamonds, pearls, and a stunning lily of the valley setting for the swinging pear-shaped diamonds. -- source link