While the round brilliant cut is considered standard for diamond, with its shape and proportions nearly constant, the choice of fancy cut is influenced heavily by fashion.
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The round brilliant cut and square brilliant cuts are preferred when the crystal is an octahedron, as often two stones may be cut from one such crystal.
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The round brilliant cut and square brilliant cuts are preferred when the crystal is an octahedron, as often two stones may be cut from one such crystal.
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Adair's collecting focus has been on American Brilliant cut glass, sometimes called rich cut glass, produced primarily in the northeast United States from the late 1870s until 1915.
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This first early version of what would become the modern Brilliant Cut is said to have been devised by an Italian named Peruzzi, sometime in the late 17th century.
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The Gabrielle Diamond in the Round shape consists of 105 facets, 48 facets more than the Classic Round Brilliant cut ( with additional 8 crown facets and 40 pavilion facets ).
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Because both the pavilion and crown are comparatively shallow, step cut stones are generally not as bright and never as fiery as brilliant cut stones, but rather accentuate a diamond's lustre ( and therefore good polish ).
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Authors Bill and Louise Boggess, in " Identifying American Brilliant Cut Glass " ( Schiffer, $ 19.95 ), relate that one collector learned his butter press really was a door knob; another found her bud vase to be a hatpin holder.
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Visit Adair's American Brilliant cut glass collection in Houston at the Heritage Society museum, 1100 Bagby, 10 a . m .-4 p . m . Mondays-Saturdays and 1-4 p . m . Sundays . There's no admission charge for the museum.
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The master of the brilliant cut, Anthony Symonds, tantalized with a selection of tight pencil skirts, chic tunics with high funnel necks and cashmere sweaters and dresses with knitted rose " corsages . " Floppy knit bows highlighted breasts and hips.
