2.4" Amethyst Druse Agate Hand Carved Skull | No.124

A druse agate skull in amethyst at 2.4 inches — small enough to close a hand around.

Amethyst is quartz that took its purple from traces of iron and natural irradiation deep underground. The colour almost always arrives in zones rather than evenly, so a carving cut across those zones shows bands of deep violet running into near-clear quartz.

The skull is the hardest test of a carver's eye, because everyone already knows what it should look like. The passages that take the longest are the ones you notice least: the transition from temple to cheekbone, and the way the teeth meet.

Item ID 2100124
Material 100% natural amethyst
Size 2.4 in
Weight see photographs