103g Petrified Wood – Heartbeat under Stone, Color Explosion, Prehistoric – 5.1 x 3.9 x 3.3 cm Skull- 103 g

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Fossilised wood skull from Madagascar, 103 g, measuring 5.1 by 3.9 by 3.3 cm.

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When the nymph Daphne fled from Apollo and her powers waned, she pleaded with her father, the river god Peneus, for rescue. So Ovid tells it in his Metamorphoses: heavy stiffness seized her limbs, a thin rind enclosed her chest. Her hair became leaves, her arms branches, her once-swift feet roots. Only her radiance remained to her. Yet when Apollo laid his hand on the trunk, he still felt her heart beating beneath the new bark. Since then the laurel has been his sacred tree.

This skull carries one more transformation within it: from wood to stone. In the bright white, the tree rings are distinctly drawn, and they run through the entire skull. Even in the red face they shimmer beneath the surface, like that heartbeat beneath the bark. Over it, the red lays itself in its own opposing bands, crossing the rings. Thus from the tree’s quiet order emerges a true explosion of variety.

Order and color here have different origins. In the petrification, silica replaced the wood’s cell walls so precisely that even the annual rings remained intact. The color, by contrast, came from iron-containing solutions that followed their own paths through the rock. Therefore the red runs across the annual rings as if it had never learned the tree’s structure.

Material: petrified wood, silicified (softwood of the Araucarioxylon type)
Origin: Madagascar
Dimensions: 5.1 x 3.9 x 3.3 cm
Weight: 103 g
Special features: Clearly preserved growth rings that run through the entire skull and also shimmer beneath the red facial area; red iron-oxide banding crossing the wood’s structure; at the back of the head a flattened zone where the trunk’s structure openly emerges

Seller's Story

Ich lasse mich immer wieder von der Schönheit der Natur überraschen und berühren. Mineralien und Edelsteine empfinde ich als Verkörperung jener Perfektion und Harmonie, die allem Sein zugrunde liegt. In ihnen verdichtet sich die Essenz der Erde – kristallisiert für die Ewigkeit und doch in jedem Stück einzigartig. Jedes Mineral, das ich anbiete, ist von mir persönlich ausgewählt. Nicht nach bloßem Glanz, sondern nach dem Gefühl von Wahrhaftigkeit, das es in mir hervorruft. So findet nur das seinen Weg in meine Hände – und weiter in Ihre –, was ich selbst als würdig empfinde, in seiner Schönheit weitergereicht zu werden. In meinem Handeln leiten mich Ehrlichkeit, Sorgfalt und die Freude am Teilen dieser Schätze. Ich verstehe mich dabei weniger als Händler, sondern vielmehr als Vermittler zwischen der Natur und den Menschen, die bereit sind, ihre Geschenke mit Achtsamkeit anzunehmen.

When the nymph Daphne fled from Apollo and her powers waned, she pleaded with her father, the river god Peneus, for rescue. So Ovid tells it in his Metamorphoses: heavy stiffness seized her limbs, a thin rind enclosed her chest. Her hair became leaves, her arms branches, her once-swift feet roots. Only her radiance remained to her. Yet when Apollo laid his hand on the trunk, he still felt her heart beating beneath the new bark. Since then the laurel has been his sacred tree.

This skull carries one more transformation within it: from wood to stone. In the bright white, the tree rings are distinctly drawn, and they run through the entire skull. Even in the red face they shimmer beneath the surface, like that heartbeat beneath the bark. Over it, the red lays itself in its own opposing bands, crossing the rings. Thus from the tree’s quiet order emerges a true explosion of variety.

Order and color here have different origins. In the petrification, silica replaced the wood’s cell walls so precisely that even the annual rings remained intact. The color, by contrast, came from iron-containing solutions that followed their own paths through the rock. Therefore the red runs across the annual rings as if it had never learned the tree’s structure.

Material: petrified wood, silicified (softwood of the Araucarioxylon type)
Origin: Madagascar
Dimensions: 5.1 x 3.9 x 3.3 cm
Weight: 103 g
Special features: Clearly preserved growth rings that run through the entire skull and also shimmer beneath the red facial area; red iron-oxide banding crossing the wood’s structure; at the back of the head a flattened zone where the trunk’s structure openly emerges

Seller's Story

Ich lasse mich immer wieder von der Schönheit der Natur überraschen und berühren. Mineralien und Edelsteine empfinde ich als Verkörperung jener Perfektion und Harmonie, die allem Sein zugrunde liegt. In ihnen verdichtet sich die Essenz der Erde – kristallisiert für die Ewigkeit und doch in jedem Stück einzigartig. Jedes Mineral, das ich anbiete, ist von mir persönlich ausgewählt. Nicht nach bloßem Glanz, sondern nach dem Gefühl von Wahrhaftigkeit, das es in mir hervorruft. So findet nur das seinen Weg in meine Hände – und weiter in Ihre –, was ich selbst als würdig empfinde, in seiner Schönheit weitergereicht zu werden. In meinem Handeln leiten mich Ehrlichkeit, Sorgfalt und die Freude am Teilen dieser Schätze. Ich verstehe mich dabei weniger als Händler, sondern vielmehr als Vermittler zwischen der Natur und den Menschen, die bereit sind, ihre Geschenke mit Achtsamkeit anzunehmen.

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103g Petrified Wood – Heartbeat under Stone, Color Explosion, Prehistoric – 5.1 x 3.9 x 3.3 cm
Mineral form
Skull
Weight
103 g
Country of origin
Madagascar
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