3.0" Chalcedony Hand Carved Realistic Skull

A realistic skull cut from a single block of chalcedony jasper, 3 inches, 318 g.

The warm honey and amber tones come from iron dispersed through the same cryptocrystalline quartz that makes blue chalcedony, which is why this stone shares that waxy lustre while reading completely differently in colour. It is translucent at the edges and grows solid toward the centre.

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 5100095
Material 100% natural chalcedony jasper
Size 3 × 2 × 2.2 in (75 × 50 × 57 mm)
Weight 318 g