A natural 1.29 ct violet sapphire, Rectangular Cushion, unheated, from Sri Lanka (Ceylon), on AGCL Report #M2511400. Violet occupies the cooler, bluer end of the purple-corundum range; heat tends to shift violet toward blue or red, so the finest violets are almost always natural as cut — which makes unheated Ceylon violet one of the rarer things in the catalogue.
"Violet sapphire gets confused with purple more often than any other sapphire color, but it's a genuinely distinct hue that sits closer to blue on the color range. Because heat treatment usually pushes violet material toward a more marketable blue or purple, an unheated stone like this 1.29 ct Ceylon violet is a real find — the color you see is what the earth made, not what a furnace produced."
Good to Know
Match the report to the stone: confirm report #M2511400, its weight and measurements against the stone you receive.
Unheated covers heating only; ask any seller which treatments their document addresses.
Colour is yours to judge — the cushion concentrates the violet across the face.