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Alisa Letsius Red Tropical Blossom bronze ring with red cubic zirconium and reed enamel covered deco..
$220.00
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Alisa Letsius purple Tropical Blossom bronze ring with purple cubic zirconium and purple enamel deco..
$220.00
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Alisa Letsius pink Tropical Blossom bronze ring with hot pink cubic zirconium and pink enamel decor ..
$220.00
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Alisa Letsius Double volcano blackened silver and gold ring with white cubic zirconium.The ring is i..
$230.00
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$200.00
Alisa Letsius Volcano blackened silver and gold ring with white cubic zirconium.The ring is individu..
$200.00
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Alisa Letsius irregular brass ring with cubic zirconium.The ring is individually handcrafted. One pi..
$90.00
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$120.00
Alisa Letsius irregular blackened silver ring with white cubic zirconium.The ring is individually ha..
$120.00
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$150.00
Alisa Letsius irregular blackened silver ring with green cubic zirconium.The ring is individually ha..
$150.00
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$120.00
Alisa Letsius irregular textured silver and bronze ring.The ring is individually handcrafted. One pi..
$120.00
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$180.00
Irregular blackened silver ring with white cubic zirconium by contemporary designer Alisa Letsius.Th..
$180.00
$200.00
Alisa Letsius irregular blackened silver ring with white and pink cubic zirconium.The ring is indivi..
$200.00
$160.00
Alisa Letsius irregular blackened silver ring with red cubic zirconium.The ring is individually hand..
$160.00
$160.00
Alisa Letsius irregular blackened silver ring with hot pink cubic zirconium.The ring is individually..
$160.00
$160.00
Alisa Letsius irregular blackened silver ring with pink cubic zirconium.The ring is individually han..
$160.00
$200.00
Alisa Letsius blackened silver ring with natural freshwater pearl and cubic zirconium.The ring is in..
$200.00
$170.00
Alisa Letsius blackened silver ring with natural freshwater pearl.The ring is individually handcraft..
$170.00
Cut stones
Contemporary art jewelry with faceted gemstones
Cut gemstones may be very different in shape, size, cutting technic, number of facets. But most of them still have some common features, such as a crown, a girdle, and a pavilion. Normally gems are set so that you are is looking through the table, the flat top facet on the crown (top portion) of the gem, to see how light has been collected and returned back. The girdle is the outer edge of the gem, where metal grips the stone to hold it in place in jewelry or art. The pavilion is the bottom portion of the gem. If the pavilion facets come to a point at the bottom, that point is called a culet. Sometimes there is a small facet at the culet that is parallel to the table. This is called a culet facet.
The total depth of the gem is the total thickness of the gem from the table to the culet. A gemstone's crown height (listed as a percentage of the diameter) can vary from deep to shallow, depending on the cutting style. Pavilion depth (expressed as a percentage of the diameter) can also vary. If a pavilion depth is too shallow, you will see through the gem, called windowing, and if it is too deep, the gem will appear dark overall.
The art of gem cutting is ancient and it is basically the transformation of raw stones into dazzling crystals. The point is to let the gem assume a certain shape, unlocking its luster, color and brilliance. Lapidaries have two general styles they can choose when cutting gemstones:
Faceted gems
Gems with geometrically-shaped, flat polished faces. Today, faceted gemstones are the most popular style, but this was not always the case. Big fans of cabochons, cameos (a gem carved in positive relief) and intaglios (a gem carved in negative relief), did you know that ancient Romans considered wearing faceted gems vulgar?
Non-faceted gems
Gems that don’t have geometrically-shaped, flat polished faces, such as cabochons. Derived from the old Norman French word ‘caboche’, meaning head, cabochon is an ancient shaping and polishing technique that remains popular today due to the yesteryear charm and character of what are, typically, richly colored gems.
Because of their different optical properties, colored gems do not have an ideal ‘brilliant cut’ like Diamonds. Which style, cut and shape lapidaries select depends on the type, shape and quality of the rough gemstone. The cut of a gem directly affects its overall value, as the cut determines how well a gem returns its body color back to the eye.
