Edit: Of course, in 1865 the dukes of Devonshire were already in the possession of the slightly bizarre Devonshire Parure, but its tiaras were probably not considered suitable for a bride.
From a historical perspective I am interested in why the tiara was commissioned. It seems unusual to commission such a spectacular tiara for the wedding of a daughter when, surely, there must have been existing jewels which would have been suitable. From what little I know, when there is a new tiara commissioned for a daughter, it is normally as a present for that lady. In this case it seems to have been for an entailed jewel, which has passed through the generations.
It might have to do with the fact that Georgiana Cavendish, first wife of the 5th duke died in 1806, just before tiaras became fashionable again. The duke's second wife was married to him only for two years, before he died in 1811.
The 6th duke was a bachelor, and only after the title passed to his cousin William in 1858, there was a duchess of Devonshire again.
There simply might have been no tiara in the family when their only daughter Louisa married in 1865, and the wedding was the first occasion to commission a suitable family jewel – "to be worn on the day of her wedding" as the Sotheby's site puts it rather than "for" Lady Louisa.
The grander of the two Devonshire tiaras was commissioned only in 1893, for the second wife of the 8th duke.
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