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A Fluted Panel Volcano with a Blue Bark Mammoth Ivory and Black and White Ebony accent, and light-yellow swirl vintage Bakelite stem with Cumberland tenon.
This piece is complex. It is a Fluted Panel as can be seen from the top and bottom views, however the four opposing corner edges are not square to the top. They are pointed and finished at different heights. Thematically these points and how they look in relation to the inner cubic bowl suggest either a weathering and eroding or a growing and rising up. In other words this bowl structure may be reminiscent of either ancient architectural ruins, or something growing like a crystal, for example.

It really is a pleasure to look at and think over!

 

Hand Crafted by Michael Parks

 

 

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