5.0" Amethyst Druse Agate Hand Carved Skull

A druse agate skull cut from a single block of amethyst, 5 inches, 1144 g.

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 3100255
Material 100% natural amethyst
Size 4.8 × 5 × 3.5 in (122 × 128 × 89 mm)
Weight 1144 g