Antieke juwelen glossarium
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Setting

The mount in which a gemstone is set in a finger ring, pendant, brooch, etc. The method in which a stone (or stones) is secured in a finger ring, either by a close setting or an open setting, in contrast to the method of incrustation.

There are many styles of settings and incrustations:

• american setting
• belcher setting
• box setting
• carved setting
• claw setting
• channel setting
• cluster setting
• collet setting
• coronet setting
• cramp setting
• crown setting
• cut-down setting
• flush setting
• grain setting
• gypsy setting
• illusion setting
• marquise setting
• millegrain setting
• pavé setting
• peg setting
• roman setting
• rub-over setting
• square setting
• thread setting
• tiffany setting

From: An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry, autor: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson