5.55 Ct.Tw.Total Carat Weight Garnet Pair from Tanzania

From the red earth of Tanzania to the careful hands of our master cutters, these two purplish pink garnets carry a story of place and craft that you can wear. Unearthed by artisanal miners and gently brought to light, each gem was selected for its intense color intensity and transparent clarity, then gently heat treated to enhance its natural hue and stability. At The Natural Gemstone Company we entrusted their transformation to cutters skilled in maximizing both fire and depth. The result is a matched pair, weighing 2.68 carats and 2.87 carats, with dimensions of 9.55 by 7.03 by 5.24 millimeters and 9.65 by 7.07 by 5.72 millimeters respectively, fashioned into elegant fancy shapes with a mixed brilliant cut that balances broad flashes with scintillating pinfire. Eye clean at normal viewing distances, and perfected with an excellent polish, these garnets still retain the living character of their origin, a purplish pink tone that reads as both romantic and rare.

In a halo setting these garnets will not simply sit in a ring, they will command a stage. The mixed brilliant facets throw light outward and inward so that a surrounding halo of white diamonds acts like a mirror and a frame, intensifying the purplish pink while increasing perceived brightness. The eye clean clarity ensures unobstructed flashes, so each diamond halo prong reflects clean light back through the pavilion, amplifying the gems radiant depth. Their substantial sizes and close matching make them ideal either as a pair of halo set studs, where the diamonds will create a crisp contrast, or as a center and side pair in a custom halo composition, where milgrain or micro pavé halos will trace the unique silhouette of the fancy shapes and emphasize the octagonal visual outline. The heat treatment is stable and widely accepted, allowing jewelers to set these gems with confidence, and the excellent polish will give the halo setting a continuous surface of brilliance. Presented by The Natural Gemstone Company these garnets are more than stones, they are travel worn beauty, ready to stand out in a halo, to catch the eye, to color skin, and to tell a story that begins in Tanzanian soil and ends as an unforgettable jewel.