1.76 Ct. Green Sapphire from Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

There is a hush that falls when true green fire comes into a room, a quiet like the first exhale after a confession, and this Ceylon treasure from The Natural Sapphire Company brings that hush with unwavering grace. A transparent green sapphire, weighing 1.76 carats and measuring 7.70 by 5.83 by 3.88 millimetres, it is small enough to sit like a secret on the hand and large enough to hold entire skylines of meaning. Its color breathes with medium light intensity, a gentle green that is at once fresh as spring leaves and deep as a candlelit forest. Born in the storied soils of Sri Lanka, this sapphire carries the slow geology of island light in every facet, an unheated, unaltered heart that glows because it was made to glow. The clarity has been judged as very very slightly included when viewed at eye level, which means that to the naked eye the surface is a field of pure glass, and when you lean closer the inclusions are tiny signatures of origin rather than imperfections, small and honest markers in a gem that speaks of real earth and real history.

The radiant cut is the poetry of geometry, a shape that marries the structured confidence of a rectangle with the riotous sparkle of brilliant faceting, and on this green sapphire that marriage becomes a conversation of light. Each facet has been placed with intent, each plane a deliberate mirror that asks light to perform, and the result is a jewel that returns brightness rather than simply reflecting it. The crown catches the sun and the moon alike, breaking the incoming rays into a palette of pale chartreuse flashes and glassy white fire. The pavilion, cut with the deep thinking of a gem cutter who understands both physics and feeling, sends light back through the stone in layered waves so that the color seems to move from within, sliding from soft mint at the edges to a more verdant pulse in the center. The trimmed corners of the radiant silhouette lend a softened strength, and the excellent polish on every facet allows ribbons of light to slip across the surface without hesitance, producing scintillation like little heartbeats of brilliance with the slightest turn of the wrist.

Because this sapphire has not been enhanced, every gleam and every whisper of hue is native, unmediated, a truthful expression of Ceylon geology and expert cutting. The medium light intensity gives the gem a luminous modesty, a voice that invites conversation rather than demanding it, and the very very slightly included clarity assures a visual purity that feels intimate and genuine. When light enters this stone it is coaxed rather than forced, and the radiant cut behaves like a kind host guiding those photons down a corridor of polished facets so they may return richer, full of echo and tone. The result is both brilliance and depth, a simultaneous display of fire and inner color play that seems to change with each breathing moment. Set as a solitary stone on a slender band, or cradled by a subtle halo that amplifies its air, the sapphire becomes a living emblem, the cut amplifying its inherent properties of reflection and refraction so that every motion of the wearer turns light into meaning.

Imagine this gem resting upon a finger, the proportions measured and generous enough to be noticed without overwhelming, an elegant rectangle that flatters and elongates. Photographs reveal scale and poise, but in the skin it is where the sapphire truly sings, catching garden light in the morning and lamplight at evening, capturing both the business of daylight and the hush of night. From The Natural Sapphire Company we commit to provenance and truth, and this Ceylon green sapphire is a testament to that promise, an unheated, transparent jewel with a history and a future. To wear it is to carry a small landscape, to hold a piece of island time and to let its facets tell a thousand quiet stories. If your search is for a gem that marries sensible dimensions with romantic presence, that uses the science of cutting to magnify the poetry of color, this radiant cut green sapphire offers itself with open light, ready to become an heirloom and a daily miracle.