3.52 ct Gray Sapphire-Star - Oval

At 3.52 carats, this star sapphire from Sri Lanka carries its gray color through an oval cut, measuring 7.5 x 6.2 x 3.1 mm.

A star sapphire carries fine silk inclusions that gather light into a star across the dome of the cabochon, a phenomenon gemologists call asterism. Sri Lanka has produced fine sapphire in every color for two thousand years, prized for transparency and life in the stone. It is entirely untreated; no heat, no enhancement, the color exactly as the earth made it.

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.