1.05 Ct. Greenish Blue Sapphire from Madagascar

This transparent oval greenish blue sapphire weighs 1.05 carat, and measures 6.66 x 5.09 x 3.70 mm, presenting a refined oval outline with balanced proportions. The cutting style is faceted, employing a mixed brilliant approach with a brilliant crown and a modified pavilion, which together optimize light return for vivid internal scintillation and color saturation. The crown faceting is designed with well proportioned crown height and calibrated table size to concentrate the intense color intensity toward the eye, while the pavilion faceting controls light leakage and supports strong face up depth. The piece is eye clean evaluated at eye level, and exhibits an excellent polish with crisp facet junctions and smooth bezel transitions, evidence of precise lapidary technique. No enhancement has been applied, so the color and clarity are entirely natural, a characteristic that contributes to provenance credibility for a Madagascar origin.

Under magnification the sapphire reveals characteristic internal features that act as unique identifiers, contributing to its gemological fingerprint rather than detracting from its aesthetic. Fine oriented needle like inclusions appear as slender, parallel silk elements that are sparse and oriented along crystallographic directions, they diffuse light slightly without creating a veil, enhancing perceived depth. Scattered pinpoint crystals and occasional minute negative crystal cavities are present, their distribution and morphology consistent with natural growth from Madagascar, and small healed fissures are visible only under magnification, exhibiting feathered edges and internal healing planes. These features allow the stone to be reliably matched to documentation and to other reference samples, and they serve as intrinsic markers for future identification. The combined effect of the mixed brilliant faceting and the internal texture yields a lively, saturated face up color with flashes of blue and green as the stone is tilted. This sapphire is ideally suited for a fine bezel or prong setting where its symmetry and excellent polish will maximize brilliance and color, and it represents a natural, unenhanced example of Madagascar sapphire craftsmanship from The Natural Sapphire Company.