Important Winter Sale: Boucheron tiara

It is not a wild guess to assume that Boucheron’s tiara was originally created for the new radical type of woman of the time and someone who was looking for a new and more modern expression for her jewellery wardrobe – for example, a tiara that contrasted with earlier stylistically rigid tiaras weighed down by tradition and old rules and regulations. The flying dragonflies of platinum and diamonds that move forward through the tiara with apparent ease are light years away from the pompous and heavy tiaras of earlier eras, often decorated with large pearls and expensive gemstones.

In Boucheron’s studios during this period, the legendary tiara, “The Wave Tiara”, was created, whose further fates are unknown and which we today only know through Boucheron’s old archive photos. The master behind the famous tiara used a Japanese artist Hokusai’s famous woodcut “Under the wave off Kanagawa” as a motif and, with almost superhuman skill, created a jewellery version in precious metal and precious stones with the same artistic grandeur that we experience in Hokusai’s image.

Perhaps it is the same master behind the tiara that Bukowskis is now selling – also with motifs from Japanese culture. The dragonfly has mythological status in Japanese literature and art, and the shortlived flying insect is also depicted in other famous pictures by Hokusai. As in all great art, Boucheron’s tiara combines timeless- ness with relevance and has a place in the history books as the masterpiece it is.