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The Pennyweight

Glossary · Fine Jewelry

Table

The table is the large flat facet on the top of a cut stone, the window you look through. Its width relative to the stone’s diameter is the table percentage, one of the proportions a cut grade takes into account. A very wide table can make a stone read larger face-up while returning less light; a narrow table does the reverse. Neither is automatically better.

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