Posted by kat max on January 13, 2012, 10:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Dowager Tsarina"
here's some photos of the Dowager empress wearing this necklace.
It looks like this piece can be worn as either a tiara or necklace. Or they may be two separate pieces.
In twining's book the tiara is described as: A diadem of brilliants with 18 pear shaped pearls, 529 brilliants weigh 118 m.c and some small roses 2 mc. The pearls weigh 250 m.c