Pear Blue Topaz Ring with White Topaz Halo and Crossover Shank in 14k Yellow Gold

A pear-shaped pale blue topaz, set point down in three prongs, inside a halo of small round white topaz. Above the halo a second arc of graduated white topaz rises to a single larger stone at the top, like a small tiara over the pear. The shank splits and crosses over beneath the head, both strands set with white topaz along their tops. 3.30 grams of 14k yellow gold.

A halo frames a stone. The arc above this one crowns it — that is the whole difference, and it is why the ring reads as ceremony rather than decoration: the pear hangs like a drop, the tiara lifts over it, and the crossover shank carries the line of light down onto the finger. December’s stone, in a shape that was made for an occasion. Whose night is it going to be?