Two Natural Emeralds, 3.88ct in the two gemstones.
The smaller cut Emerald at the top is simply a good example of AGrade commercial quality Emerald gemstone, well cut, of clear vivid green; the larger Emerald, facetted all over the face and flat at rear, of free-form shape, is the interesting gemstone and the reason the above pendant was created, handcrafted in Sydney. Translucent, the gemstone has a number of eye-visible inclusions, a distinctive characteristic of genuine Emerald gemstone – indeed, gemmologically, Emerald is characterised as having “jardin” (French: “garden”) – adding to its charm as the genuine article, but above it boasts the unmistakable strong natural Emerald green that the man-made article simply cannot replicate.
The synthetic man-made Emerald has been, over the decades, finessed to the point where it comes out with exactly the same chemical composition as the real thing, with the same crystal structure, but the colour, the look, is somehow never quite right; its colour is uniform, usually of too deep a green, and translucent, without inclusions, too clean.
To look into the above larger Emerald gemstone is to be intrigued by the visible variations in its green; it is completely natural.