“Gemstone Alabaster”
"The Wedding Ring"' - Gemstone Bowl for elegant, Engagement, Wedding and Anniversary Present
According to the American Gem Trade Association (AGTA), a gemstone is defined as any stone that is colorful, translucent and that can take a high polish. Alabaster is such a rare gemstone. Beloved for centuries around the world, prized in museum collections showing ancient Chinese and Egyptian treasures, shockingly, Alabaster has been an all but forgotten material in this country! As Alabaster Master Paul Hawkins says, “we replaced this precious gemstone in our country with industrialism and plastic”. We are reviving this magnificent material known as “The Queen of Stones”.
The moment I saw the diversity of colored and translucent Alabasters on Paul’s show table in July of 1976 I fell in love with it’s elegance, variety and beauty. Paul and I share a mutual love of this gemstone and have found great joy in bringing out it’s beauty, playing with its possibilities. Our shared service to this gemstone in the name beauty and preserving and honoring this precious material is the something larger than ourselves that has propelled and given deeper meaning to our life – along with our children.
Paul carved this gemstone White Alabaster Bowl that we call “The Wedding Ring”, inlaid it with the rarest of gemstone Orange Alabaster and extravagantly topped it with a magnificent Amythest Crystal onlaid with the finest of Uruguan Amythest crystal cluster. The piece is 10″ High X 12″ Wide X 10″ Deep. It would not be difficult to imagine this being the perfect engagement or wedding gift.
Each piece we make is uniquely and lovingly carved for that someone special who will fall in love with it. Impossible to repeat, because each stone has it’s own story, this original art form truly honors this magnificent Gemstone – Alabaster.