From the Collection of the Barons Gisborough
Splendid Diamond Tiara 鑽石 冠冕
Auction Closed
November 12, 02:56 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 CHF
Lot Details
Description
Designed as a graduated series of flowerheads set with old mine-cut and pear-shaped diamonds, partially in closed back settings, to a base set with old mine-cut diamonds, together with a detachable drop set with an old mine cut diamond suspending an old pear-shaped diamond with old cushion-shaped foliate motif, inner circumference approximately 335mm, detachable for wear as a bracelet, length approximately 176mm, brooch fitting; the tiara formed in the 19th century from 18th-19th century floral motifs, the large central flowerhead originally an 18th century dress ornament. Accompanied by a fitted case stamped Abud and Collingwood.
The Barons Gisborough
The Barons Gisborough
The current Gisborough baronetcy was created in 1917 for Richard Chaloner (1856-1938), a distinguished officer in the British army and Member of Parliament. The Chaloner family had already held the baronial rank in the seventeenth century when the baronetcy had been bestowed on Sir William Chaloner (1587–1641), but the title became extinct upon his death.
Richard Chaloner was in fact born as the second son of the Wiltshire-based landowner and politician Richard Penruddocke Long. His older brother Walter became the first Viscount Long in 1921. Richard inherited the Gisborough estate in North Yorkshire from his maternal great-uncle Admiral Thomas Chaloner (1815-1884). In accordance with Admiral Chaloner’s will, Richard Long assumed the Chaloner surname by royal licence in 1888.
In 1558, the Chaloner family had acquired Gisborough Priory following the Dissolution of the monasteries. Gisborough Priory had been founded as an Augustinian monastery in 1119 by the Norman lord Robert de Bruce. In the 13th century, it was rebuilt in the Gothic style. For centuries the Priory flourished as one of the wealthiest monasteries in Yorkshire. When Sir Thomas Chaloner (1521-1565) acquired Gisborough Priory, demolition of the monastic buildings was already underway, therefore he built a manor house, Old Gisborough Hall, which featured one remaining Gothic arch on its grounds. The old Hall was in turn demolished in the early 19th century. When Admiral Thomas Chaloner inherited the estate in 1842, he constructed the current neo-Jacobean Gisborough Hall, where the Chaloner family continued to have its seat until World War II.