#carved shell

[letmeinimafairy]

Slowly finishing new carved things, it's finally warm enough to work in a workshop for the whole weekend. And crocheting these beaded strings is really fun, a good way to still keep making something useful even when migraine is trying to kill me 😵‍💫

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[boylerpf]

Antique Marcasite Sterling Silver Carved Shell Cameo Ring

Source - Boylerpf

[jadeseadragon]

A Pair of Maya Skull Pendants

Mesoamerica, Early Classic Period, c. 300-600 AD

Carved from white shells with details enhanced with red pigment, these dramatic pendants take the form of human skulls, their large eyes and bared teeth rendered with striking clarity. They were once strung as tinklers-small suspended ornaments that clicked and rang together when worn in motion-decorating the belts of Maya kings and high-ranking lords. Stone monuments and painted murals show rulers wearing wide wooden or basketry belts adorned with textiles, jade maskettes, and shell tinklers suspended along the lower edge. Both are in excellent condition, old chip on proper right back side of one. With acrylic stands.

[ltwilliammowett]

A carved shell showing a woman sitting ashore at a capstan looking longingly at a ship, 19th century

[charlesreeza]

Roman seashell cameo depicting agricultural irrigation works, date unknown

In the Farnese Collection of Gems, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

Photo by Charles Reeza

[letmeinimafairy]

Back to carvings and crocheting while my blood pressure tries to kill me😵‍💫 made a green one this time, jade, pearls and glass beads for a necklace.

[letmeinimafairy]

A tiny gallery, about two centimeters in a widest place. Made a short necklace for this one, sitting right under clavicles. Pearls, amazonite, howlite and glass.

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[letmeinimafairy]

Continuing with Piranesi, a two storeys spiral staircase during the tide. Carved shell and resin, a pendant for a necklace.

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