A pendeloque, from French ''pendeloque'', is a hanging often drop- or pear-shaped object or pendant used as an ornamentation, such as drop-shaped
pendant earrings, and specific pear- and drop-shaped parts of
chandelier
A chandelier () is an ornamental lighting device, typically with spreading branched supports for multiple lights, designed to be hung from the ceiling. Chandeliers are often ornate, and they were originally designed to hold candles, but now inca ...
s. The term is also used in describing the specific
pendeloque cut
A pendeloque cut or pear cut, is a pear-shaped modification of the round brilliant cut used for diamonds and other gemstones. The pendeloque cut is sometimes erroneously called briolette cut, another drop-shaped cutting design. While the briolett ...
for gemstone
cutting
Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force.
Implements commonly used for wikt:cut, cutting are the knife and saw, or in medicine and science the sca ...
.
Gallery
File:1E4A4335.jpg, Pendeloque-shaped earrings.
File:Earrings (France), 19th century (CH 18316861).jpg, Pendeloque-shaped earrings, with pendeloque cut
A pendeloque cut or pear cut, is a pear-shaped modification of the round brilliant cut used for diamonds and other gemstones. The pendeloque cut is sometimes erroneously called briolette cut, another drop-shaped cutting design. While the briolett ...
yellow topaz
Topaz is a silicate mineral made of aluminium, aluminum and fluorine with the chemical formula aluminium, Alsilicon, Sioxygen, O(fluorine, F, hydroxide, OH). It is used as a gemstone in jewelry and other adornments. Common topaz in its natural ...
es and small rose cut
A diamond cut is a style or design guide used when shaping a diamond for polishing such as the brilliant cut. Cut refers to shape (pear, oval), and also the symmetry, proportioning and polish of a diamond. The cut of a diamond greatly affects ...
diamond
Diamond is a Allotropes of carbon, solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle solid, colourless in pure form, a poor conductor of e ...
s.
File:Chandelier-2381625.jpg, Leaf-shaped pendeloque prisms on a chandelier.
File:Eighteen-light chandelier MET DP154307.jpg, Drop-shaped pendeloque prisms on a chandelier.
See also
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Briolette
A briolette is a style of gemstone cut (gems), cut. It is an elongated, mostly symmetrical along the main axel, pear shape covered with angular facets usually with a pointed end and no Girdle (gemstone), girdle. It is often drilled to hang as ...
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