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5" Realistic, Shimmering Labradorite Skull - Madagascar
This is a beautifully polished, 5" long skull carved from labradorite collected in Madagascar. The stone has a smoky gray-green body color with darker natural inclusions and subtle internal patterning that give the piece a dramatic, almost metallic appearance.
The carving is highly detailed, with deeply recessed eye sockets, a fully rendered nasal cavity, pronounced zygomatic arches, a sculpted mandible, and individually defined teeth. The open anatomical features and carefully shaped contours give the skull a realistic, dimensional form from every angle.
As the skull is turned under the light, flashes of labradorite’s characteristic iridescence appear across the polished surface, revealing shifting tones of blue, green, gold, and other spectral colors. This optical effect, known as labradorescence, makes the piece especially dynamic and ensures that its appearance changes depending on the viewing angle and lighting.
The combination of detailed craftsmanship, substantial size, and natural iridescence makes this an especially striking display piece for a mineral collection, office, or curio cabinet.
The carving is highly detailed, with deeply recessed eye sockets, a fully rendered nasal cavity, pronounced zygomatic arches, a sculpted mandible, and individually defined teeth. The open anatomical features and carefully shaped contours give the skull a realistic, dimensional form from every angle.
As the skull is turned under the light, flashes of labradorite’s characteristic iridescence appear across the polished surface, revealing shifting tones of blue, green, gold, and other spectral colors. This optical effect, known as labradorescence, makes the piece especially dynamic and ensures that its appearance changes depending on the viewing angle and lighting.
The combination of detailed craftsmanship, substantial size, and natural iridescence makes this an especially striking display piece for a mineral collection, office, or curio cabinet.
About Labradorite
Labradorite is a feldspar mineral most often found in mafic igneous rocks. Some specimens of labradorite exhibit what is called a "Schiller effect"; a strong play of iridescent blue, green, red, orange, and yellow colors. Labradorite is so well known for these spectacular displays of color that the phenomenon is also known as labradorescence. Specimens with high quality labradorescence are often polished and used as gemstones.
The labradorescence is not caused by the colors reflecting on the surface of the specimen. Instead, light enters the stone, hits a twinning crystal lattice surface within the stone, and reflects from that. The color seen is the color of light reflected from that twinning surface. Different twinning surfaces within the stone reflect different colors of light. Light reflecting from different twinning surfaces in various parts of the stone can give the stone a multi-colored appearance.
Labradorite is named after Labrador, Canada, where it was first found. Today, the most prolific deposits for most commercially available labradorite occur in Madagascar and Russia.
Labradorite is a feldspar mineral most often found in mafic igneous rocks. Some specimens of labradorite exhibit what is called a "Schiller effect"; a strong play of iridescent blue, green, red, orange, and yellow colors. Labradorite is so well known for these spectacular displays of color that the phenomenon is also known as labradorescence. Specimens with high quality labradorescence are often polished and used as gemstones.
The labradorescence is not caused by the colors reflecting on the surface of the specimen. Instead, light enters the stone, hits a twinning crystal lattice surface within the stone, and reflects from that. The color seen is the color of light reflected from that twinning surface. Different twinning surfaces within the stone reflect different colors of light. Light reflecting from different twinning surfaces in various parts of the stone can give the stone a multi-colored appearance.
Labradorite is named after Labrador, Canada, where it was first found. Today, the most prolific deposits for most commercially available labradorite occur in Madagascar and Russia.
SPECIES
Labradorite
LOCATION
Maniry, Madagascar
SIZE
5" long 3.8" tall, 3.5" wide
CATEGORY
ITEM
#378607
