2-979-586 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bandeau of Diamonds and Oriental Pearls, 1857. 'The marriage, by Hebrew ceremonial, of the Baron Alphonse de Rothschild to his cousin Leonora, the beautiful daughter of the Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild, the popular head of the family in this country, is an alliance which may not inaptly be said to have an European interest...After the ceremony, the bride wore a gorgeous suite of diamonds, consisting of a diadem or necklace; two fringes for the dress in diamonds; and a diamond chain with eleven fine oriental pearl drops for a bandeau; the value of the whole exceeding £5000. The design, which is perfectly novel, was furnished by the mother of the bride, the Baroness Lionel de Rothschild, and the execution was intrusted to Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, of Bond-street'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.