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In a chapter of the collection called Pisces, brooches are decorated with exceptional padparadscha sapphires, diamonds, and rubellites.—
Stellene Volandes,
Town & Country,
5 June 2023 Take, for example, the 76 carats of pear rubellites dangling from a collar of pavé diamonds offset by sapphires and turquoise.—
Sean Santiago,
ELLE Decor,
2 June 2023 The 35 mm case is set with dazzling brilliant-cut diamonds, and the crown is topped with a cabochon-cut pink rubellite.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
9 May 2023 Pink gems Pink sapphire, rose quartz, star ruby, rhodonite, rubellite, pink tourmaline and — last but certainly not least — pink diamonds.—
Leanne Italie,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Nov. 2022 But during an inventory of the Russian collection in 1922, the mineralogist Aleksandr Fersman made a shocking discovery: Caesar’s Ruby was, in fact, a rubellite tourmaline.—
Nancy Hass,
New York Times,
12 Aug. 2022