A wash of color rather than a statement of it. Enough warmth to separate from a colorless stone in daylight, little enough to stay quiet on the hand. The grading scale reads these as a step down. We select them for the ones where the color sits even and clean across the whole stone.

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.