0.53 ct Purple Sapphire-Color Change - Oval

At 0.53 carats, this color-change sapphire from Sri Lanka carries its purple color through an oval cut, measuring 5.6 x 4.1 x 2.9 mm.

Sapphire is corundum, one of the hardest materials in the gem world after diamond, and it comes in every color the species holds except the red the trade reserves for ruby. Sri Lanka has produced fine sapphire in every color for two thousand years, prized for transparency and life in the stone. It is wholly untreated, its color finished by geology rather than by any furnace or enhancement.

Its exact combination of color, cut, and origin is its own, the kind of center stone you choose on purpose and build a piece around. Hand-selected and photographed by Caveman Gems in good light, shown as honestly as a screen allows.