A rose cut is a dome of triangular facets on a flat base: all crown and no pavilion.
In more detail
It spread from the middle of the 1500s. It suited flat rough and lost little weight. Light leaves at the same angle it enters, so the colors recombine: a rose shows almost no fire.
Related terms
- Brilliant cut: A brilliant cut is a cutting style with a crown of facets above a pavilion. Its facet angles return light and spread it into fire.
- Mazarin cut: The Mazarin, or double cut, is the first brilliant, from the mid-1600s. It has 34 facets in all, on a cushion outline with a wide, open culet.
- Old single cut: The old single cut, or eight cut, has 8 facets above the girdle and 18 in all. They are a table, 8 crown facets, 8 pavilion facets and a culet.
- Fire: Fire is the flashes of spectral color that a cut stone sends out. In our census, fire is the share of returned light whose colors leave more than 0.6° apart.