Est. by Riccardo Burzotta & Christopher Dyer
Rare stones,
quietly held.
Cygnet Gems is a private house of coloured stones — rubies from Montepuez, emeralds from Swat, garnets from Kunene. Each piece is sourced at origin, catalogued as a single object, and offered on enquiry.
Current Cabinet
Selected pieces
Provenance
Bought where
it was found.
Every stone in the Cygnet cabinet is bought in the country of its origin — the Swat Valley of Pakistan, Montepuez in Mozambique, Mberengwa in Zimbabwe, the Ethiopian highlands.
We work almost exclusively with untreated material. Where a stone has been heated or lightly oiled — the traditional and disclosed practices of the trade — we say so plainly on the ticket.
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The House
Riccardo Burzotta
Cygnet Gems was co-founded on a simple principle: that trust in a coloured stone comes from knowing who bought it, and where. A stone is not an anonymous commodity — it is a single object, pulled from a specific piece of ground, and its story matters.
Co-Founder · Stone Expert
Christopher Dyer
Christopher Dyer brings decades in the coloured-stone trade to Cygnet — a career spent grading, cutting and valuing rough and polished material across the world's principal markets. If Riccardo is the house's face, Christopher is its eye.