Butterfly Ironwood Box Dinosaurs Hand-carved Mother-of-Pearl 18k Recycled Yellow

Hand-carved Mother-of-Pearl 18k Recycled Yellow Gold

from Eve Streicker:

Pewter with gold finish and blue epoxy

the area didn’t produce significant amounts of lead until the 1900s

Clay: The oldest ceramic object is not a cooking pot or drinking bowl

Butterfly Ironwood Box Dinosaurs Hand-carved Mother-of-Pearl 18k Recycled YellowArtist Larry Favorite was a mechanical engineer on the fast track for success in the business world back in the early 1970s when he decided to leave his business career to pursue a growing interest in art. Forty five years later, Favorite continues to work exclusively with desert ironwood which is only found in the Sonoran Desert in the American southwest. Some of this rare wood has lain dead in the desert between 200 and 1,500 years. Favorite inlays