Natural body color running from pale straw through warm honey to soft amber, formed under conditions no two stones shared. Colorless grading treats warmth as a defect to be priced down. We have never read it that way- champagne sits against skin and against gold in a way no white diamond does.

Named for the way its facets open from a central point. Domed above, flat below, no pavilion and no culet. Cut since the sixteenth century and never about brilliance- it glows rather than flashes. The flat base gives it a broad face for its weight, and the shallow depth lets you see into the stone rather than off it.