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The atelier

House photography

Parcels as they arrive from the field, rough before it is cut, and finished stones under studio light. A look at the material we work with rather than a list of what is for sale.

  • A close-packed parcel of faceted blue stones filling the frame, lit so the facets catch the light at different angles
    A parcel of blue sapphire, sorted for tonesquare
  • A single deep blue cushion-cut sapphire photographed against a dark graduated studio background
    Cushion-cut blue sapphire under studio lightlandscape
  • A violet-blue emerald-cut gemstone held in a pair of gemmologist's tweezers against a plain pale background
    Under the loupe — every stone is inspected before it is listedlandscape
  • A large peach-pink oval-cut gemstone resting on textured tree bark
    Warm peach-pink, the tone Ceylon is sought forlandscape
  • Four round brilliant-cut blue stones arranged on a white surface, each casting a long shadow
    Calibrated rounds, matched for colour and cutlandscape
  • A bracelet and drop earrings set with blue stones and small colourless stones, arranged on deep blue fabric
    Finished pieces, commissioned from loose stockportrait
  • An assortment of polished and rough stones in purple, red and clear, scattered across a grey slate surface
    A working parcel, straight from the fieldlandscape
  • A single piece of rough, uncut blue mineral resting on a white surface
    Rough, before any decision about the cut has been madelandscape
  • A macro photograph of purple amethyst crystal points rising from a cluster
    Amethyst, in the form it comes out of the groundlandscape
  • Several tumbled and polished purple amethyst stones grouped on a white background
    Tumbled amethyst, graded by depth of colourlandscape
  • Many small lilac faceted stones scattered on a pale surface, photographed with shallow depth of field
    Small faceted lilac stones, sorted by the handfullandscape
  • A polished pale green crystal point standing upright on a wooden surface
    A polished point, cut to show the colour zoningportrait
Every stone is individual

These are the material.The collection is the inventory.

Each stone we list carries its own photography, its own laboratory report and a permanent Gem ID you can verify at any time — including years after it has sold.