Fabulous amethyst white coral and fossilised wood carving of an ostrich, in the manner of Bernhard

Fabulous amethyst white coral and fossilised wood carving of an ostrich, in the manner of Bernhard Becker, the head with a yellow beak and bead eyes set to the fossilised wood head and neck above a coral collar and amethyst body with white tail feathers and links raised on gilt, metal legs on a crystal base, 26cm long, 22cm high

Footnotes Bernhard Becker Born in 1950 in Idar-Oberstein, Bernard Becker, son of Karl-Otto Becker, apprenticed as a gemstone engraver with the firm of Georg O. Wild and completed his Masters examination in gem engraving in 1973. He opened his own workshop and gallery in 1974