The Dutch Marquise is a marquise that has been reconsidered. Its silhouette is broader, shorter, and more settled than the modern marquise — a length-to-width ratio that prioritizes presence over elongation. The points taper, but they do not reach. The result is a shape that reads as architecturally resolved rather than dynamically stretched.
"Dutch Marquise" is not a formally standardized gemological category. It is an antique-inspired interpretation — a return to the cutting philosophies that preceded modern marquise geometry, which prioritized maximum optical performance over the organic character of earlier stones.
The faceting is a step-brilliant hybrid. The crown and pavilion use elements of both traditions, and the effect sits between them: not the glassy stillness of a pure step cut, not the scattered brilliance of a brilliant cut, but something with geometry and depth together. The flat hexagonal sections return light in wide planes. The pointed ends gather it.
In India, it is close to impossible to source from any retail jeweller. The cutting tradition for this shape developed in the Netherlands and has not traveled widely into the Indian trade. We cut our Dutch Marquise stones to specification in Surat using a modified step-brilliant hybrid technique developed for this exact silhouette.
The people who find the Dutch Marquise tend to arrive at it deliberately. Architects, designers, and jewellery collectors who have spent time looking at stones and find the standard shapes familiar in a way that no longer interests them.