[Tiara] Jewelers strive to create settings that enhance the natural beauty of gems. This tiara's manufacturer fashioned spring-mounted settings, called tremblants, for fifteen of its flowers. The settings allowed the diamonds to move, capturing and reflecting light, whenever the wearer moved. A few of the flowers can be removed and worn separately as brooches. Marjorie Merriweather Post, the cereal heiress, purchased the piece. It had been the property of the Saxon royal family, and the Archduchess Anna of Hungary had inherited it, probably around the end of the 19th century.

Courtesy of the National Museum of Natural History, gift of Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post.

Merriweather Post Tiara and Brooches, early to mid-19th century, United States, diamonds and white gold

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