Imperial Russian Artist's Palette Charm tiara It's not unusual to find

It's not unusual to find these ancient intaglios mounted into 19th Century rings

a small chip to the back by the hinge

the citrine has a crack

London 1970

it's well made and stylish

Imperial Russian Artist's Palette Charm tiara It's not unusual to findDATE: Pre Revolution, c. 1903 1903 saw the foundation of the Union of Russian Artists, an exhibiting society comprising artists from the St Petersburg based Mir iskusstva (World of Art) and former members of the progressive and democratic group known as the Wanderers (Peredvizhniki). The World of Art movement had become disillusioned, as the Pre Raphaelites had before them, with the anti aesthetic nature of modern industrial society, seeking to