A vividly saturated yellow sapphire in a very well made pear shape. Pears aren’t usually the brightest or most sparkly of cuts, but in this case the cut really does the color justice – it lights up well and looks bright and sparkly.
To reach this level of saturation, the rough was likely heated from a so-called ‘kowangu’ type of rough. ‘Kowangu’ is to yellow what ‘geuda’ is to blue sapphires – milky, whitish rough corundum that when heated produces some of the most saturated colors of the gem world.
Unlike ‘geuda’ type sapphires however, ‘kowangu’ yellows don’t require electrical furnaces or very high heat: they are commonly heated by placing a stone in a crucible and heating it the traditional way, by stoking coconut shell embers through a blowpipe.
Variety:
Yellow sapphire
Weight:
1.09
Color:
Vividly saturated orangish yellow of a medium tone
Clarity:
Eye clean
Treatments:
Standard heat only
A vividly saturated yellow sapphire in a very well made pear shape. Pears aren’t usually the brightest or most sparkly of cuts, but in this case the cut really does the color justice – it lights up well and looks bright and sparkly.
To reach this level of saturation, the rough was likely heated from a so-called ‘kowangu’ type of rough. ‘Kowangu’ is to yellow what ‘geuda’ is to blue sapphires – milky, whitish rough corundum that when heated produces some of the most saturated colors of the gem world.
Unlike ‘geuda’ type sapphires however, ‘kowangu’ yellows don’t require electrical furnaces or very high heat: they are commonly heated by placing a stone in a crucible and heating it the traditional way, by stoking coconut shell embers through a blowpipe.
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