When I write about the artistic license I do not mean that the artist deliberately changed things rather they were wrong. If the image was derived from another they may not have actually seen the jewel. Though it is accurate in how the spires look, it is inaccurate in its relationship to the next spire, they are too close together. The painting shows the spacers were there but indicate that they made little difference to the spacing.
I would also highlight the difference in the clusters. Those of the tiara look markedly different from the new tiara. They were not made at the same time by the same hand as a set. Perhaps the tiara was made by a jeweller in Kassel and given by her parents and the rest was made in Paris and purchased ten years later. I do not know enough to date either the tiara accurately or the necklace. The tiara clusters look less well made in the auction photograph then the scrolls they sit upon, perhaps the tiara was made from elements that already existed. There is also the difference in size of the sapphires in the tiara versus the necklace, again as if they had different points of origin.
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