Mini Skull on Base

Smooth white skull with a domed crown balances politely on its pedestal.

This miniature skull on a base is contemporary. Skull imagery appears in many cultures with different meanings, from Mexican Day of the Dead sugar skulls to scholarly anatomical models used in teaching. Small, smooth pale skull with a high rounded cranium, deep eye sockets, a nasal cavity and finely cut teeth. A thin black pin joins it to a tall black block that fills the lower frame. It is 1 inches wide, 1 deep and 3 high.

A little vanitas, rather neatly turned out.