Bombé: The word itself simply means "curving or bulging outward". In regards to jewelry it refers to a dome-shaped setting often seen in rings and earrings from the 1940s and 1950s.
Bombé: A domed shaped seen in earrings and rings in the 1940s and 1950s.
Bonding: A process of applying a colorless bonding agent into or on a gemstone to make the stone more robust.
62-carat cushion-cut 'pigeon's-blood red' unheated Burmese stone: $3,637,480 ($425,000 per carat). Purchased by Laurence Graff at Christie's. Set in a Bulgari rectangular-shaped diamond bombé mount ring. (2006, Geneva) ...
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