Busacca Gallery

Beautiful, extremely rare hand-chased and engraved Bas' relief carved ring in the Gargoyle Series. In an antique satin finished 18kt royal yellow gold. Additionally, the ring is set with two Brilliant-cut diamond eyes and a natural, untreated oval-cut Padparadsch sapphire weighing 0,86 carats.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire#Padparadscha

In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building. A chimera, or a grotesque figure, is a sculpture that does not work as a waterspout and serves only an ornamental or artistic function. These are also usually called gargoyles in laypersons' terminology.



Padparadscha

Padparadscha is a pinkish-orange to orangy-pink colored corundum, with a low to medium saturation and light tone, originally being mined in Sri Lanka, but also found in deposits in Vietnam and Africa. Padparadscha sapphires are very rare, and highly valued for their subtle blend of soft pink and orange hues. The name derives from the Sinhalese word for lotus blossom. Along with rubies they are the only corundums to be given their own name instead of being called a particular colored sapphire.

Cut stone: Sapphire/Padparadscha. The rarest of all Sapphires the Padparadschas is the totally natural variety, with no beryllium or other treatment including heating. To find a stone that is certified by a reputable lab as being completely natural is extremely rare and the stone will be very expensive. High quality, unheated and untreated natural padparadscha sapphires will start off in the range of $5,000 per carat and rise by size, color, tone, cut, and clarity, to $20,000–30,000 per carat.