0.71 Ct. Pinkish Purple Sapphire from Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

This sapphire is a transparent, oval shaped gem weighing 0.71 carats, with exact dimensions of 6.21 by 4.31 by 3.27 millimeters, presenting a length to width ratio of 1.44 which yields a pleasingly elongated, classical oval outline. The mixed brilliant cut combines a modified brilliant crown with a carefully faceted pavilion that balances brilliant and step style faceting, engineered to optimize both return of light and preservation of color saturation. The measured depth of 3.27 millimeters gives a depth percentage of approximately 62.2 percent relative to the mean diameter, a proportion that favors strong light return without excessive windowing, maintaining both lively scintillation and an even color field. Clarity is graded as very very slightly included when evaluated at eye level, these inclusions are minute, non-distracting to transparency and do not interfere with the gem’s overall brilliance, and the finish is an excellent polish that minimizes surface diffusion and enhances facet junction sharpness.

Color is a vivid pinkish purple with balanced tone and saturation, and the interplay of pink and violet components is highly dependent on viewing angle and lighting environment, reflecting the pleochroic nature typical of corundum varieties with this hue. Under natural daylight, particularly north facing or high CRI daylight, the sapphire emphasizes its cooler purple component, producing a clear, jewel-like violet impression with well defined saturation across the table and crown facets. In warm incandescent or warm LED lighting the stone shifts toward its pinker side, the warmer spectrum energizes the red component in the crystal lattice absorption profile, resulting in a richer, rosier appearance that can read as distinctly pinkish at face up. Under mixed indoor lighting such as retail LED fixtures with directional spotlights the mixed brilliant faceting architecture creates strong pinpoint scintillation and fire, delivering lively flashes of pink and purple that animate with hand movement, while in soft diffused lighting conditions the same proportions allow the body color to present uniformly with reduced contrast, yielding a velvety, saturated field of color without pronounced windowing.

Optical performance is supported by exacting facet geometry and superior polish, the modified brilliant crown provides multiple small crown facets that break and refract incident light to generate brightness, while the pavilion facet arrangement returns light efficiently through the table for high face-up brightness. The facet junction quality and symmetry reduce light leakage in borderline directions, preserving color saturation at oblique viewing angles and enabling pronounced scintillation under direct spot lighting. Because the sapphire is untreated, with no enhancement, its vivid color intensity is intrinsic to the stone’s trace element chemistry and crystal structure, making color shifts under different lighting a natural consequence of its mineral physics rather than a result of alteration. The VVS eye-level clarity ensures that internal features do not act as significant light scatterers, so brilliance and contrast remain high and inclusions are inconsequential to overall visual performance.

Provenance is Ceylon, Sri Lanka, a classic origin known for producing sapphires with bright, lively tones and transparent material, and this example exhibits those regional characteristics in a compact, wearable size. For use in jewelry the gem’s proportions lend themselves to secure mounting with minimal metal coverage to preserve light entry, and the stone’s balanced length to width ratio makes it compatible with both solitaire and halo settings while maintaining elegant finger coverage for rings or a refined focal point for pendants. At The Natural Sapphire Company we emphasize the technical integrity of each stone, this sapphire’s combination of precise mixed brilliant cutting, ideal depth percentage, eye-level clarity, vivid natural color, excellent polish, and documented Sri Lankan origin make it an appealing choice for connoisseurs seeking an untreated, technically refined pinkish purple sapphire with predictable and dynamic performance across lighting conditions.