3.0" Amazonite Hand Carved Crystal Realistic Skull | No.026

A realistic skull cut from a single block of amazonite, 3 inches.

Amazonite is a feldspar, not a quartz, and it behaves differently under the tool: it cleaves along flat internal planes instead of fracturing. The white streaking through the blue-green is a second feldspar grown into the first, which is why the pattern looks woven rather than banded.

Carving a skull leaves nowhere to hide — the proportions are familiar enough that any error reads immediately. Most of the working time goes into the orbits and the line of the jaw.

Item ID 2100026
Material 100% natural amazonite
Size 3 in
Weight see photographs