5.7" Blue Chalcedony Hand Carved Realistic Skull

A realistic skull cut from a single block of blue chalcedony, 5.7 inches, 1967 g.

This is cryptocrystalline quartz — the crystals are there but far too small to see, which gives blue chalcedony its soft, slightly greasy sheen and its translucency. Held up to a lamp the pale blue-grey lets light through at the edges while the thicker passages stay opaque.

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 3100645
Material 100% natural blue chalcedony
Size 5.7 × 3.8 × 4.2 in (144 × 96 × 108 mm)
Weight 1967 g