Beryl in seawater blue. The calm one, traditionally carried by sailors.
The aesthetic
Aquamarine is the blue to blue-green variety of beryl, coloured by iron, and it grows as clean six-sided prisms that can reach a remarkable size while staying transparent. The natural colour often leans green and is commonly heated to shift it toward pure blue. Its sister stones in the same mineral are emerald, morganite and heliodor, which differ only in the trace elements that colour them.
The dynamic
Aquamarine is tied to water and to safe passage, carried by sailors long before it was a jeweller's stone, and is associated with calm, clear speech and steadiness under pressure.
Some variations
- santa maria aquamarine
- maxixe
- beryl var. aquamarine
- aquamarine on matrix