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Wedding tiara

Jewellery
Inventory number
2019.10.17.1.JW.TI.C1920.FR
Description
Wedding tiara made of wax orange blossoms, rhinestones and glass beads, and some celluloid for fake leaves. Everything is maintained by wires with silk thread. 

Orange blossoms were used as a symbol of chastity and fertility and were used a lot after the one King Albert offered to Queen Victoria as an engagement wedding gift. 
Materials
Wax
Silk thread
Wire
Rhinestones
Glass beads
Origin
circa 1920 France
Dimensions
Width : 15 cm
Length : 16 cm
Height : 4 cm