Diamond Sapphire Double Halo Ring, Peacock

Fine diamond sapphire double halo ring set with a 1.09ct fancy diamond and accented with blue sapphires and white diamonds in 22k and platinum.

The diamond is a fancy brownish greenish yellow and it displays like a droplet.

This is a statement ring handmade to make available an East West style in the genre of cluster rings.

One of many, this particular ‘East West ‘style adapts the 19th century form into a distinct look of shape and contour, rounded at both axes.

The ring ‘folds over’ the finger when you wear, the floral cluster seeming to glove the finger, its contours extending under to a carved curlicued gallery.

This gallery is displayed on the finger, crowned like a cake, though it is the craftsmanship that persuades the ring to wear as if it is flushed and one does not feel the height of the ring.

For a bigger ring such shapeliness is the key difference between casually made and semi ornate style rings.

All the metalwork in this ring is sculpted and carved bit by bit, not cast, and contoured to an heirloom standard.

This East West style sometimes inverts the way gold is used, arranging the platinum frame outside and yellow gold bezel inside, then working the gallery in high karat gold.

Most Western rings will frame a platinum top and reserve the yellow gold for its gallery, or else use platinum to bezel the diamond only, the outer in yellow gold.

There is only one ring like this, for it is so much work and one more is better dissimilar.

Anglo Indian or Art Deco, this ring is called ‘Peacock’. (The other cluster ring is ‘Nightingale’, partnered in the last photo.)

All photos are taken in natural light, no additional lamp is used.

Diamonds weigh 0.45ctw, sapphires weigh 1.44ctw.

GIA Report 6175627449.