(via Diamond Cuts in Historic Jewelry:1381-1910) Herbert Tillander writes:
One more diamond belonging to the French crown was the Mazarin number 4. It originally weighed 24¼ ct. It was Sancy Cut above, but as it was said to have been ‘very thick’ it will have had a pavilion of some sort, possibly very primitively faceted. The Mazarin was refashioned, some time between 1786 and 1788, into a roundish oval Brilliant weighing 13 5/8 ct.
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