6.9" Blue Labradorite Hand Carved Realistic Skull

A blue realistic skull worked in labradorite. At 6.9 inches and 4416 g it wants a shelf of its own rather than a desk corner.

The flash across labradorite is not colour in the stone but interference: light bouncing between microscopic lamellae inside the feldspar. It only appears from certain angles, which means a carved form reveals it in passes as it turns.

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 2100228
Material 100% natural labradorite
Size 6.9 × 4.7 × 5.5 in (176 × 120 × 140 mm)
Weight 4416 g