1.28 Ct. Purplish Pink Sapphire from Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

This purplish pink sapphire began its story beneath the warm sun and ancient soils of Ceylon Sri Lanka, a place where gemstones have been forming and captivating the world for millennia. In small alluvial pits and riverbeds, families and local miners work with knowledge passed down through generations, feeling the river gravel and the bedrock, seeking the glint that promises a rare find. We at The Natural Sapphire Company honor that lineage, and this sapphire carries that heritage in every facet. The rough crystal was discovered and carefully extracted, carried from the mine to local sorting tables where experienced eyes and hands assessed its potential, and then it began a journey that would transform it from a piece of nature into a gem that is ready to tell a new story on a finger, a pendant, or a pair of ears. The island of Ceylon has long been celebrated for producing sapphires with lively, complex color, and this stone is a beautiful example of that tradition, a transparent purplish pink that feels both romantic and rare.

From rough to refined, the decision to fashion this stone as an emerald cut was deliberate and intimate, made by cutters who understand how to listen to a crystal and reveal its best face. The finished gem weighs 1.28 carat, and measures 7.21 x 5.35 x 3.16 mm, proportions chosen to balance presence and wearability, while maximizing its visual charm. Its clarity is described as very slightly included evaluated at eye level, a grade that testifies to its natural character and the cutter s skill in preserving transparency and minimizing visible marks. The color sits at a medium light intensity, a hue that reads as elegant and fresh, with purplish pink nuances that shift subtly in different lights. To enhance and stabilize this natural beauty, the sapphire has been heat treated, a customary and permanent enhancement that refines color and clarity without altering the stone s essential nature. Finally, an excellent polish was applied, giving the surface a mirror like finish that invites light to enter and return in vivid ways.

The emerald cut is a storyteller of light, and in this purplish pink sapphire it performs with quiet sophistication. Unlike brilliant cuts that scatter light into numerous tiny flashes, the emerald cut uses broad step facets and a large table to create a hall of mirrors effect, where planes of light and color play across the stone in elegant flashes. Those long parallel facets emphasize the depth and purity of the sapphire s color, allowing the medium light purplish pink to breathe and reveal internal color zoning and subtle undertones, rather than overwhelming them with excessive scintillation. Because this stone is transparent and very slightly included at eye level, the step cut accentuates its clarity, making any internal features part of the gem s character, while the excellent polish ensures uninterrupted reflection, so light glides across each step and returns with clean, refined flashes. The proportions of 7.21 by 5.35 millimeters mean the face up presence is both graceful and substantial, the length to width ratio enhancing the gem s elegant rectangular silhouette, and the depth at 3.16 millimeters being just right to let light enter and reflect without appearing shallow or too dark. In short, the emerald cut in this case does not fight the stone s nature, it collaborates with it, turning innate color and clarity into composed, luminous beauty.

When you consider wearing this sapphire, imagine how the story continues as it meets light, skin, and setting. Set in a simple bezel the clean lines of the emerald cut will sing with modern restraint, set in a four prong cathedral the step facets will catch day and evening light with composed flashes, and paired with diamonds the soft purplish pink will be framed and intensified, creating a dialogue between fire and color. The heat treatment is stable and enduring, a common practice that enhances what nature offered, and The Natural Sapphire Company stands behind the craftsmanship and provenance of every gem we present. This sapphire carries the geography of Ceylon in its tone, the hands of cutters in its cut, and the patience of miners and graders in its finish. It is a piece that will lend a sense of place and a gentle drama to any piece of jewelry, a stone that feels as appropriate for an everyday talisman as it is for a moment that calls for something particularly significant. If you would like further details on settings, accompanying diamonds, or ring sizes that complement the 7.21 by 5.35 by 3.16 millimeter profile, I would be happy to guide you, and to share additional images and light studies so you can see how the emerald cut enhances the purplish pink heart of this exceptional 1.28 carat sapphire.