LARVIKITE SPHERE including the shoulders and hands

including the shoulders and hands clenched — to denote their readiness for battle and likely to act as inserts for any of the bronze spears that would have been inserted through the fist

with deep curvature and a tight rattan weave

had been produced as a dye for over 600 years from the female cochineal insect

just below the rim

from Kenya

LARVIKITE SPHERE including the shoulders and handsA vintage sphere, carved from a solid piece of larvikite and polished. Larvikite is an igneous rock, rock which has been solidified by magma or lava, made up of varying pale and colourless crystals among other rock forming minerals, giving this stone its characteristic silvery, deep blue tones. The name originates from the town of Larvik, in Norway, having been formed nearly 300 million years ago.