1.72 Ct. Spinel from Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Long before it rested in the palm of a cutter, this pear shaped pinkish purple spinel was born in the ancient soils of Ceylon, Sri Lanka, a land where monsoon rains and volcanic seams conspire to create earthly treasures. In those centuries old deposits, crystals grow slowly, layer by patient layer, each atom of aluminum and magnesium taking its place until color is coaxed into being, and this gem chose a rare, romantic hue. We at The Natural Gemstone Company imagine the first seed of this 1.72 carat stone forming deep underground, catching stray traces of chromium and iron that blended to produce a medium intense pinkish purple, a tone that seems at once playful and dignified. The crystal rose with clarity that allowed light to move through it, transparent and honest, though it carried with it tiny internal markers of its journey, slight inclusions that you will find when holding the gem to the eye, little signatures of its origin that prove its natural story. No enhancement has altered its voice, no heating or treatment has rewritten its original color or internal character, and that purity is something we cherish and pass on to the person who will wear it next.

When the rough reached the attention of a master cutter, the decision to fashion it into a 8.92 by 5.85 by 5.01 millimeter pear shape with a mixed brilliant cut was made to honor both its color and its inner life. The mixed brilliant arrangement captures both the fiery scintillation of a faceted crown and the graceful depth of a step pavilion, letting the medium intense pinkish purple breathe while hiding and revealing those slight inclusions like secrets told under low light. At 1.72 carats the gem sits in a sweet space between presence and intimacy, large enough to be noticed and admired, yet delicate enough to be worn close to the skin. The cutter polished every facet to an excellent finish, coaxing brilliance from every plane so that when light meets the table and facets, it dances with a soft, romantic flash rather than a rhetoric of blinding fire. Evaluated at eye level the clarity is slightly included, and those gentle inclusions are not faults, they are map points that tell of subterranean rivers and shifting earth, small memories of the stone’s creation that make this spinel singular.

Imagine this spinel mounted in a setting chosen to echo its origin, a ring that will sit above the pulse, catching twilight and reflecting the blush of love. The pinkish purple color invites stories from day to night, it reads like a first blush at dawn and a velvet sky at dusk, a color that can hold a secret and also speak clear affection. The slightly included clarity becomes romantic in the hand, inclusions like tiny gardens that sparkle when kissed by light, reminders that even the truest beauty carries a history. Worn on a ring finger it will tilt into sunlight and offer flashes of lavender and rose, and when held close it will reveal depths of purple that seem to hold an island memory, a whisper of Ceylon. For those who value authenticity, no enhancement means what you see is what the earth and the cutter together decided to give, and the excellent polish completes the translation from rough to jewel. At The Natural Gemstone Company we have shepherded this stone from its Sri Lankan beginnings through expert cutting and careful evaluation, and we present it as a story waiting to continue, an heirloom in the making for someone who wishes to carry both color and history, a small, luminous testament to love, place, and time.