Alabaster Beauty from the pages of history

摘要

WHEN ROMANTIC ERA poets extolled the beauty of "alabaster skin," they were undoubtedly referring to the stone's sometimes dazzling white tones, but there's more to it than that. Alabaster comes in a broad range of colors, even broader than the range of skin tones we actually see on people, while its delicate texture and extraordinary translucency give it a gleaming, lifelike quality, especially at the hands of talented carvers.