1.11 Ct. Greenish Blue Sapphire from Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Imagine a gem that breathes like a secret tide, a small ocean captured in a single stone, a 1.11 carat treasure whose greenish blue heart seems to hold the hush of twilight and the first light after rain. This fancy shaped sapphire measures 6.51 x 7.22 x 4.09 mm, proportions that sit like a perfectly penned line between intimacy and grandeur. Born in the storied soils of Ceylon Sri Lanka, this stone carries the island s soft reputation for sapphires that glow from within, a provenance that connoisseurs and romantics alike have long cherished. Treated with careful heat enhancement to awaken and stabilize its intense color, the sapphire arrives to you polished to an excellent finish, a surface so fine that every facet sings with a clean, honest light. As a steward of The Natural Sapphire Company I present this gem not as a mere object, but as a companion for vows, quiet promises, and the slow unfolding of shared years.

The step cut is the language in which this sapphire speaks, a series of broad, parallel facets that turn the gem into a small architectural poem. Where brilliant cuts scatter light into playful scintillation, the step cut receives and returns light with a more deliberate grace, producing flashes that move like windows opening onto a deep blue lagoon. Those long, mirror like facets produce a hall of echoes within the stone, each facet reflecting the next, guiding light inward and then back in a sequence of layered pulses. Because the cut emphasizes planes over points, the color wells up, showing an intense saturation that reads as both vivid and velvety. The precise geometry of the step cut also highlights clarity, and with a clarity grade evaluated at eye level as very very slightly included, the gem offers a purity that feels rare and honest, a clarity that allows its greenish blue to breathe without distraction. The excellent polish on every facet ensures that when light finds the stone it is returned as a smooth, luminous phrase rather than a scatter, so that a glance can be a small revelation and a nearer look can be a gentle hymn.

Consider how this sapphire will live in jewelry, how it will catch the light as you turn a hand, or when you clasp a coat in the winter twilight. The step cut lends itself to settings that celebrate the stone s dignity, settings that cradle it like a window to an inner sea. In a solitaire ring the gem will read as a calm, sophisticated presence, its intense color folding into the metal around it and then springing back to life with each movement. In a halo or three stone design those parallel facets will converse with surrounding accents, the sapphire s steady flashes tempering and anchoring the sparkle of diamonds. The gem s dimensions offer a balance of presence and wearability, large enough to be noticed, intimate enough to be worn every day. The heat treatment it has undergone is a traditional, stable enhancement chosen to bring forward its fullest, most honest color, a gentle refinement rather than a transformation, done with respect to the natural character of the stone. Origin from Sri Lanka brings with it a legacy of artistry and gemological heritage, a narrative that adds to the romance of ownership.

As someone who lives among stones and stories I invite you to imagine this sapphire set against skin, catching candlelight on an anniversary evening, or held briefly to your lips during a quiet vow. The greenish blue hue is versatile and poetic, suggesting sea glass and storm sky, new leaves in a shaded garden, and the kind of love that is both bold and tender. The step cut s elegant planes will make everyday movement a private spectacle, a soft release of light with each gesture, while the excellent polish keeps those moments clean and bright. At The Natural Sapphire Company we understand that a gem is chosen as much for the future it will witness as for the way it looks now, and this piece comes with the assurance of careful sourcing, exacting craftsmanship, and a provenance that speaks of Ceylon s long reputation for exceptional sapphires. If you seek a stone that reads as a quiet declaration, a devoted companion to the moments that matter, this 1.11 carat fancy shaped sapphire stands ready to be that promise, a slender, luminous testament to memory, to commitment, to the slow miracle of weather and earth turned into something meant to be worn and loved.