Mammoth Alligator Bite Tsavorites and 18 Karat Yellow Gold Earrings

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Mammoth Alligator Bite Tsavorites and 18 Karat Yellow Gold Earrings

About the Item

Intricately carved to replicate an alligator’s body in miniature, these earrings convey a fierce glamour. The earrings are designed in 18k yellow gold and 60,000-year-old mammoth tusk, with the alligator’s mouth acting as the earrings’ closing mechanism, so they snap the ear. With tsavorite eyes, the tails on these alligators move too, underlining Bibi’s attention to the most minute of details. Bibi van der Velden’s jewellery might be fashioned from haute, precious materials such as 18k fairtrade gold, diamonds, and baroque pearls, but there’s a very human quality to her intricately-crafted designs. Bibi believes that jewellery should imbue the wearer with energy, with her pieces offering a playful, personal, and highly artistic take on fine jewellery. This personal touch comes from a jewellery-making process that’s grounded in traditional craftsmanship. Working with sustainable and unexpected materials, among them 60,000-year-old mammoth tusk, ostrich eggs, and scarab wings, Bibi hand-sketches and hand-carves each piece in wax. Bibi describes her jewellery pieces as “miniature sculptures.” Nature and the animal world is another constant in Bibi’s designs. A Tahitian pearl spins in the Galaxy Spinning Pearl Ring, while ornate cocktail rings whose design spotlights monkeys or panthers hide a smaller, sleek gold ring within. Movement and transformation are a hallmark of her work. With this unique element of surprise, there’s always more to a Bibi van der Velden piece than meets the eye. This artistic sensibility is woven into Bibi’s background. Born in New York and raised in England and the Netherlands, Bibi studied fine arts in Florence, Italy, before honing her eye at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Bibi now creates jewellery and sculpture from her studio in Amsterdam.

Creator:
Bibi van der Velden
Metal:
18k Gold,Yellow Gold
Stone:
Tsavorite
Sold As:
Set of 2
Style:
Contemporary
Place of Origin:
Netherlands
Period:
2010-
Date of Manufacture:
2018
Condition:
Seller Location:
Amsterdam, NL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU97537594612