Carved Mother Of Pearl Leaf Beads

Description

These are just amazingly beautiful carved mother-of-pearl 3D leaves, very detailed. There are twenty-two (22) pieces on this strand. They are carved on both the front and the back! Being obviously hand carved, they are all individual. There is enough commonality to the shapes and sizes to make quite a good number of pairs.

Although very delicate looking, this is shell, so it is very tough! The shell is essentially white with the pearlescent shimmer on many of the leaves. Some of the shell material has some golden brown accents. This is high quality carving and quite unusual.

Average size leaf: about 35 x 25 mm (a bit over an inch long), some are smaller, some larger

When shipped, I will be taking the beads off the strand and wrapping them up well.

Added on Nov 07, 2009