Abstract Alabaster Vase, Small

A quiet study in geological patience, this small-scale vessel from John Richard works entirely in alabaster — a stone whose translucent interior warmth no artisan fully controls, only coaxes. At nine inches tall, the form reads as both monolithic and delicate, its proportions narrow at the crown before settling into a deeper, considered footprint. The abstract silhouette resists easy categorization, belonging equally to the sculptural and the functional, and rewards placement wherever the eye needs a moment of stillness.