Not a shape you pick from a catalog. This one just happened.
Cabochons usually come in the same handful of shapes ā oval, round, pear, maybe a teardrop if you're lucky. This one skipped that memo entirely.
It widens out at the top like the head of a comma, then tapers down into a long, narrow tail ā an outline you won't find twice, because it wasn't cut to a template.
What holds your eye, though, isn't the shape on its own ā it's how the color moves across it. Start at the top and the stone leans into a soft sage-green, almost muted.
Follow it down and it cools into blue-green territory, before warming back up with streaks of gold near the base.
The dark, cracked lines running through the surface do more than just add texture; they act like borders between color zones, so each section of the stone reads a little differently depending on where the light hits.
Practically speaking, the flat back is doing you a favor here. Freeform shapes like this can be a pain to set ā no standard bezel is going to fit an outline this irregular ā so a flat back at least means you're not also fighting a domed profile.
Most people setting a stone like this go one of two routes: a hand-formed metal bezel that traces the actual edge, or wire wrapping, which honestly plays to the stone's strengths since the wandering shape gives you natural anchor points to work with.
