The Alien's Vessel — hand-carved walnut and hornbeam box by Edgar Hovhannisyan

The Alien's Vessel — Walnut & Hornbeam

$1,500.00
$1,500.00
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The Alien's Vessel — hand-carved walnut and hornbeam box by Edgar Hovhannisyan
  • The Alien's Vessel — hand-carved walnut and hornbeam box by Edgar Hovhannisyan
  • The Alien's Vessel — high three-quarter view
  • The Alien's Vessel — lid and brackets from above
  • Copper-leaf flame finial detail
  • Front panel carving and bracket detail
  • The Alien's Vessel — top-down view
  • Lid carving detail — interlaced knotwork on walnut
  • Open vessel — royal blue velvet interior with maker's medallion
  • Open vessel from the front — velvet-lined interior
  • Carved maker's nameplate on velvet
  • Side joinery detail — small interlocking pieces
  • Edgar carving the Alien Ship Box
  • The Alien's Vessel — hand-carved walnut and hornbeam box by Edgar Hovhannisyan
  • The Alien's Vessel — high three-quarter view
  • The Alien's Vessel — lid and brackets from above
  • Copper-leaf flame finial detail
  • Front panel carving and bracket detail
  • The Alien's Vessel — top-down view
  • Lid carving detail — interlaced knotwork on walnut
  • Open vessel — royal blue velvet interior with maker's medallion
  • Open vessel from the front — velvet-lined interior
  • Carved maker's nameplate on velvet
  • Side joinery detail — small interlocking pieces
  • Edgar carving the Alien Ship Box
The Alien's Vessel — Walnut & Hornbeam

The Alien's Vessel — Walnut & Hornbeam

$1,500.00
$1,500.00

The Alien's Vessel — Edgar Hovhannisyan's own name for this extraordinary box — is assembled from many small interlocking pieces of walnut and hornbeam, accented with copper leaf and finished in clear varnish. The lid lifts away to a royal-blue velvet interior holding Edgar's carved maker's medallion. The vessel measures 30 × 19 × 15 cm (about 12" × 7½" × 6").

"I called this box The Alien's Vessel. Everything is made by hand! It is made of many small pieces. I am self-taught — I don't know what this style of work is called. For this work I used walnut and hornbeam. I used copper leaf and covered the whole work with varnish."

— Edgar Hovhannisyan

Watch Edgar carve it in the video at the end of the gallery. A one-of-a-kind work — no two carvings are ever alike. From the Fine Art Carvings collection.

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