A 5.73ct. blue marquise, set east–west, for @peter_pan

The brief was short: a marquise, blue, and nothing underneath it.

He had been looking at solitaires for a month and kept coming back to the
same complaint — the stone always sat up on a head, and the head always
looked like scaffolding. He wanted to see the stone and the band and
nothing in between.

A marquise makes that easy and difficult at once. Fifty-eight facets drawn
out to two points, so it carries its weight as length rather than depth.
Face-up it reads larger than its carat, which is why people choose it. The
two points are also the most fragile part of any cut, which is why the
setting has to earn its place rather than just hold on.

We set it east–west, across the hand, and split the shank so the band
arrives from both sides and passes the stone rather than stopping at it.
Four claws: two single ones over the points, where the metal has to do real
work, and two doubled at the widest part, where it does not. In 14K yellow,
because he wanted warmth against the blue and did not want white metal
competing with it.

The stone is laboratory-grown, fancy blue, IGI certified and laser
inscribed with its report number. 

Stone and setting were quoted separately, as they always are.