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polished or
ground off,
creating the
table cut. The
importance of a
culet was also realized, and some table-
cut stones may
possess one. The
addition of four...
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Ashlar (/ˈæʃlər/) is a
cut and
dressed stone,
worked using a
chisel to
achieve a
specific form,
typically rectangular in shape. The term can also refer...
- is
cut.
These advocate a
shift away from
grading cut by the use of
various angles and
proportions toward measuring the
performance of a
cut stone. A number...
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Ashlar masonry.
Stone masonry using dressed (
cut)
stones is
known as
ashlar masonry.
Trabeated systems. One of the
oldest forms of
stone construction uses...
- hole
drilled in the
stone, and a
pendeloque cut stone needs to be
mounted in a
prong setting. The
pendeloque is one of the drop
cuts for gemstones. The...
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presented it to Edward VII. It was then
cut by
Joseph ****cher & Co. in Amsterdam.
Cullinan produced stones of
various cuts and sizes, the
largest of
which is...
-
pyramid (or proto-pyramid) was
considered to be the
earliest large-scale
cut stone construction made by man,
although the
nearby enclosure wall "Gisr el-Mudir"...
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called a fine gem, jewel,
precious stone,
semiprecious stone, or
simply gem) is a
piece of
mineral crystal which, when
cut or polished, is used to make jewelry...
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astonishes visitors, but seen from one aspect, a rock-
cut structure is a
decorated rock quarry; most of the
stone removed was
typically put to
economic use elsewhere...
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Heritage Site
since 1984. It is one of the
oldest structural (versus rock-
cut)
stone temples of
Southern India.
Marco Polo and the
European merchants who came...
