That's the one, thank you so much Alejandro, I'd never seen this picture of Queen Maria Pia, known as the "most glamourous Queen of Europe" in her days.
Well, I didn't call it "disgusting", I just call it something like a bit "ugly" imo of course.... Such a poor design (specially the tiara) to reset such splendid stones... as I said, I've seen them live years ago and they are indeed fabulous stones, huge, of a deep green colour and considered as being of the highest quality.
It seems from the picture that the parure also included a bracelet. It looks like the bigger emeralds were dismantled from the XVIIIth century corsage bow (in portuguese "laça de peito") and just lined up on a frame with a diamond on top and three in between each of the emeralds. For the necklace, seven of the smaller emeralds were added a diamond at the bottom and suspended from one of the diamond riviéres of the royal house, the same design being used in the earrings. The bracelet seems like the remaining emeralds simply lined up.
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