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Ring with a table-cut diamond

anoniemca. 1580 - ca. 1620

Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Diamonds are octahedral crystals with a regular eightsided shape. In the early 16th century it was discovered how to cleave a crystal on its broadest side, which resulted in two joined pyramids. The shape most | commonly used in jewellery was the table-cut stone. This is an octahedron of which a little less than half of the top pyramid is sawn off.

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  • Title: Ring with a table-cut diamond
  • Creator: anoniem
  • Date Created: ca. 1580 - ca. 1620
  • Physical Dimensions: goud
  • Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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