3.05 Ct. Spinel from Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

This transparent bluish purple spinel weighs 3.05 carats, and presents a classic cushion outline with calibrated dimensions of 8.94 x 7.58 x 5.33 mm, resulting in a total depth of approximately 64.5 percent, a proportion that favors face up brilliance and balanced pavilion return. The gem is fashioned with a mixed brilliant cut, combining a brilliant style crown to maximize scintillation, and a stepped pavilion to enhance color saturation and internal reflection. Faceting is executed with precise symmetry and excellent polish, producing crisp facet junctions and minimal light leakage. Clarity is graded very very slightly included, evaluated at eye level, with inclusions confined to minute crystals and healed stress features that do not disrupt transparency or optical performance. Color is described as bluish purple with a medium intense color intensity, offering an elegant balance between purple depth and cool blue overtones that shift subtly with viewing angle. Origin is Ceylon Sri Lanka, unenhanced, and left in its natural state to preserve the inherent crystal chemistry and pleochroic tendencies of classic Sri Lankan spinel. The combination of weight, cut, and polish yields an optical presentation with lively brilliancy, even tone distribution, and a rich face up color that will perform reliably in ring and pendant settings.

The story of this spinel is rooted in the twilight over Ceylon, where monsoon clouds part to reveal a late evening sky, a hue that the cutter sought to capture in every facet. The medium intense bluish purple evokes a first meeting at dusk, when colors deepen and details become intimate, and the very very slightly included clarity becomes a metaphor for memory, small internal signatures that affirm natural origin and a life lived, rather than a surface of manufactured perfection. The mixed brilliant faceting was chosen to mirror that twilight, splitting light into flashes of violet and blue, while the stepped pavilion concentrates the tone so that the gem reads as a saturated heart of color from the table, and as a silvery blue in motion. For the informed collector and connoisseur, this piece embodies skilled lapidary technique and geological provenance, a natural, unenhanced Sri Lankan spinel that carries both technical merit and romantic provenance. This example is offered by The Natural Gemstone Company, ready to be set into a design that honors its technical virtues and its quiet, evocative narrative.