Twelve Days of Christmas

A Daily Unveiling of Sculptural Mastery by Emily Young

To celebrate the start of the festive season and elevate the art of gifting this Christmas, a new sculpture will be revealed each day by Britain’s greatest living stone sculptor, Emily Young, the recipient of the Lorenzo il Magnifico Lifetime Achievement award at IX Florence Biennale 2025.

Magnificent presents for the ones you love best or for adding to your own carefully curated wish list, these unique, jewel-like sculptures, in an exceptional range of ancient stones including Onyx, Lapis Lazuli, Quartzite and Giallo di Siena, represent enduring gifts of great beauty which honour the earth. Timeless, iconic works of art reflecting on the harmony of human form and the environment, these exquisite pieces will bring great joy this holiday season and for thousands of years to come.

Festive season: limited-time price reductions

On view at 147 New Bond Street

Emily Young with 'Jupiter Disc III, 2025' at The Artist's Studio, Italy. Photograph by Joshua Jara

DAY EIGHT

Connemara Torso

Connemara marble: 26 3/8 x 9 x 3 in / 67 x 22.9 x 7.6 cm

Carved in 2021

Geology notes:

Connemara Marble has a primal past, formed from muddy marine sediments deposited in a shallow primal sea.

£50,000

DAY SEVEN

The Flowering Song of the Troubadour III or Speleothem Head I

Speleothem Stone [formed in caves]: 8 x 8 ⅝ x 8 ⅝ in / 20 x 22 x 22 cm

Carved in 2021

Geology notes:

Small speleothems formed by the dripping of mineral rich water in a cave. In these pieces new speleothems developed on remains of older ones.

£45,000

DAY SIX

Little Sky Head

Sodalite Syenite: 9 ¾ x 6 x 6 in / 25 x 15 x 15 cm

Source: Brazil

Carved in 2025

Geology notes:

Igneous syenite formed as molten rock cooled slowly deep within the earth. The mineral sodalite gives the vivid blue colouring.

£35,000

DAY FIVE

Moon Light 1, 2025

Onyx [Calcite]: 16.1 x 4.3 x 1.6 in / 41 x 11 x 4 cm

Source: Persia

Carved in 2025

Geology notes:

‘The term onyx is used to describe a variety of different stones formed from the residue left by mineral-rich water as it drips slowly through spaces in other rock forms. The wide range of colours, textures, crystal structures and figurations is what makes each piece unique and beautiful.’

£25,000

DAY FOUR

Solar Disc IV / III

Onyx (Calcite): 27 ½ in / 70 cm diameter

Source: Persia

Carved in 2011

Geology notes:

The crystal growth pattern shown in this piece is formed by calcite rich water that falls and settles horizontally in sedimentary layers over many hundreds of thousands of years. Perhaps in a cave, where water drips down, or on the bottom of a lake. The colours change as the dusts and minerals from the upper world are washed down over the long passage of time. The stone slowly grows around the microscopic particles of calcite giving this piece its particular nature.

£45,000

DAY THREE

Green Waters

Onyx (Calcite): 8 ¼ x 3 x 7 in / 21 x 8 x 18 cm

Age: during the last 2.6 million years

Source: Persia

Carved in 2025

Geology notes:

This beautiful crystal growth pattern is formed by calcite crystals that grow around cores formed by impurities within the calcite and gives this piece its particular colouration and form.

£30,000

DAY TWO

Celestial Head

Quartzite: 7 ½ x 4 ¾ x 5 ½ in / 19 x 12 x 14 cm

Source: Italy

Carved in 2025

Geology notes:

Quartz and quartzites are the hardest commonly found stones on earth; they are made of crystallised silicates and are the source of a wide variety of semi-precious stones. The colouring is amazingly variable.

£30,000

DAY ONE

River Torso IV

Macauba Quartzite: 34 x 10 x 4 cm

Source: Brazil

Carved in 2021

This stone is a fine blue and white quartzite, with very occasional and surprising spots of dark red. It was formed many hundreds of millions of years ago, in what is now Brazil. Its blue and white figurations remind me strongly of water. It's extremely robust. Huge deposits of sand have been deformed into very hard quartzites inside a large and extensive basin in the Brazilian state of Bahia ...’

£25,000