BBJ Sterling Silver Violet Periwinkle CZ Cubic Zirconia Cluster Ring - Size 6

Sterling silver cluster ring set with violet and white cubic zirconia, marked 925 and BBJ for Bangkok Ratnaraj Jewelers. The crown is built as a wide saddle that rises from the shoulders into a double lobed outline, pinched at the center so the face reads as two linked ovals rather than one solid block. Inside each lobe the violet stones are packed in a tight domed cluster of round brilliants, prong set at staggered heights so the surface undulates instead of sitting flat. A single row of small white cubic zirconia outlines each lobe and continues down the shoulders into the shank, drawing a bright line around the whole arrangement.

Cubic zirconia is the right material for a design built this way. It is cut as a full round brilliant and disperses light hard, so a pale violet stone still throws real flash instead of sitting dull the way a soft pastel natural stone of this size would. Set twenty odd of them at differing angles and the crown is always catching light somewhere, which builds a color saturation no individual stone carries on its own. The white border does the other half of the work. Framing pale violet against bright white rather than plain silver gives the eye a hard reference point, and that contrast is what pushes the violet to read as color rather than as gray.

Ring size 6. The crown is wide across the finger but low in profile, so it wears as a statement without catching.

Details:
Maker: BBJ, Bangkok Ratnaraj Jewelers
Metal: Sterling Silver
Hallmarks: 925, BBJ
Stones: Cubic Zirconia
Stone Color: Violet Periwinkle and White
Stone Cut: Round Faceted
Setting: Prong Cluster with Accent Border
Design: Double Lobe Cluster
Ring Size: 6
Condition: Excellent estate condition

Fun Facts:
Bangkok has been the center of the world's gem cutting and setting trade since the 1970s, when Thai workshops took over the volume business of faceting and mounting for the global market. A Thai mark on a gemstone piece is a manufacturing address the same way an Italian mark is on chain.
Cubic zirconia was not invented for jewelry at all. Soviet physicists at the Lebedev Physical Institute worked out how to grow it in the 1970s because they needed a hard, optically clear crystal for laser research, and the material only reached the jewelry trade afterward, once someone noticed what it did with light.