Look at this beauty! Starting with the insanely clear, bright uncut Quartz. When a gem dealer leaves a stone unfaceted, part of the reason can be because the stone is so high quality they don’t want to interfere with the beauty of the stone. Sometimes stones are faceted to hide inclusions within the stone.

The faceting covers up the ‘blemish’. Meaning when a stone is a cabochon the light plays through the gemstone saying it’s a higher quality stone. No smoke or mirrors. (not that that’s always the reason for faceting.

The vermeil petal ‘cups’ fall like something organic. They snuggle up and create plant leaves above a hanging flower?