The big jewels make the aces in this deck among the most beautiful I've ever seen. The pips are reductions of these jewels that require the eyes to refocus, but there is insufficient contrast to preserve the definition in this smaller size. Still they are very pretty. The jokers and court cards are stunning, although the blanched skin of the figures is inadvertently ghoulish even as this scheme creates the necessary elemental contrasts of the jewelry in which the figures are meant to feel pearl-like. Though various effects collide with technical realities, I am a huge fan of this deck for both its net beauty and its aesthetic ambition.