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Pair of standing mazers with lids. Silver, mapelwood, enamel, and bloodstone. 7"high x 6"diameter. There is just no good way to photograph a project with so many textures and surfaces, but this one is pretty good. I corrected the colour on the enamel to fix the glare, but that is about the only touch up. I made these sometime back for a patron who has since bought a big house and is now spending most of his spare money on Gustave Stickley furnature. Anyway the bowels and lids are turned from a single block of maple, so that the grain lines up. The feet are six sided and constructed of 1mm sterling silver, with a heavey silver moulding on the bottom. The lips and flurs on the lids are also of sheet silver, as are the settings for the champlave enamels. The knobs on the lids are six sides and cast sterling, with applied prongs. The stones are six sided bloodstones, that don't quite come to a point in the center. This was a really challenging project, on which I worked with an enamelist, and a woodturner. I also wound up asking for an advance to buy some equipment that I needed, but in the end it is one of those projects that still wows me when I see one of these things in person.

'Hope everyone likes them.

Description
Pair of standing mazers with lids. Silver, mapelwood, enamel, and bloodstone. 7"high x 6"diameter. There is just no good way to photograph a project with so many textures and surfaces, but this one is pretty good. I corrected the colour on the enamel to fix the glare, but that is about the only touch up. I made these sometime back for a patron who has since bought a big house and is now spending most of his spare money on Gustave Stickley furnature. Anyway the bowels and lids are turned from a single block of maple, so that the grain lines up. The feet are six sided and constructed of 1mm sterling silver, with a heavey silver moulding on the bottom. The lips and flurs on the lids are also of sheet silver, as are the settings for the champlave enamels. The knobs on the lids are six sides and cast sterling, with applied prongs. The stones are six sided bloodstones, that don't quite come to a point in the center. This was a really challenging project, on which I worked with an enamelist, and a woodturner. I also wound up asking for an advance to buy some equipment that I needed, but in the end it is one of those projects that still wows me when I see one of these things in person.

'Hope everyone likes them.