Ships worldwide. This piece is held at our workshop and ships internationally.
One of a kind
Every carving is cut from its own block of rough. The photographs on this page show the exact piece you will receive — not a sample from the same batch.
Natural stone, untreated
100% natural stone, never dyed or reconstituted. Veins, inclusions and small shifts in colour are how the material formed; they are marks of origin rather than faults.
Carved by hand
Cut, shaped and polished by hand. Proportions differ a little from piece to piece because each one follows the block it came out of.
Checked and packed
Hand-inspected before dispatch and shipped in shockproof packaging.
Warmth Without Colour
Pale stones are traditionally associated with clarity, and this one specifically with a clarity that has been arrived at rather than assumed.
Set it where the light is warm — lamp rather than daylight.
Stillness
Its association is consistently with calm and with lowered volume rather than with energy of any kind.
Keep it in the room where nothing much happens.
Nothing to Prove
Without banding or flash, ivory jade shows only form. Traditionally it is a stone linked with modesty.
Place it where it will be seen occasionally rather than constantly.
What Ages Well
Pale jade-family stones are among the most commonly inherited objects in the cultures that carve them.
Given rather than bought for oneself, by long custom.
Why We Carve Animals
Animals in stone are old — older than writing. What a carved animal carries is whatever its own culture gave it: the elephant's memory, the owl's night sight, the bear's patience. The stone lends its own weight to the borrowing.
Keep it in view rather than in storage; these are traditionally companions rather than talismans.