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The Eternal Tortoise Collection | Artisan Turtle Figurines
The Eternal Tortoise Collection | Artisan Turtle Figurines
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The Eternal Tortoise Collection | Artisan Turtle Figurines
This bundle brings together six turtle and tortoise sculptures, each hand-carved in Uruguay and finished with the signature De Rosa touch using bold enamel, 24k gold, platinum detail, and rich texture. Each piece tells its own quiet story through posture, glaze, and color. Together, they form a sculptural meditation on time, wisdom, endurance, and balance.
1. Galapagos Turtle
Dimensions: 09×05×12 cm (3 1/2″×1 7/8″×4 3/4″) | Issue Year: 2009
This larger turtle has a calm, grounded presence. Its shell is a work of geometry, pieced with curved enamel shapes in soft gold, white, and dusty green. The pattern flows like ocean currents frozen in clay. Its head is tilted gently to the side, inviting stillness and attention.
Symbolically, the Galapagos tortoise is an icon of longevity and natural order. Here, it’s a monument in miniature. The design feels ancient but not dated, a nod to the timeless patience these creatures represent.
2. Baby Galapagos Turtle
Dimensions: 08×04.5×10 cm (3 1/8″×1 3/4″×3 15/16″) | Issue Year: 2009
A smaller companion to the full-size Galapagos, this figurine mirrors its form but with softer contours and a more playful tilt. The detailing is no less intricate, though, just more compact. It's not merely a “baby version”; it feels like a new chapter, a different point on the same timeline.
In collections, baby animals often soften the tone, but here it adds continuity. Together, the Galapagos pair speak of heritage, lineage, and the quiet transmission of life across generations.
3. Sea Turtle
Dimensions: 13×13×07 cm (5 1/8″×5 1/8″×2 3/4″) | Issue Year: 2020
Unlike the grounded tortoises, the sea turtle is fluid in design. Its flippers stretch outward as if mid-glide. The golden surface gleams, trimmed with scroll-like carvings and a segmented shell in ocean blues and forest greens. It feels alive, in motion.
This sculpture brings an energy the others don’t. It adds a sense of travel and journey of a turtle in motion, not at rest. This makes it a powerful symbol of endurance, not just over time, but over distance.
4. Green Turtle
Dimensions: 10×09×05 cm (3 7/8″×3 1/2″×1 7/8″) | Issue Year: 2014
Earthy green tones dominate this turtle’s shell, overlaid with complex, almost architectural patterning. The form is compact and solid, the posture confident, the head slightly turned in a moment of awareness. Gold highlights define the edges and draw out the shapes.
Turtles like this one often represent grounded wisdom. It carries a strong, quiet presence. While the sea turtle flows, the green turtle anchors.
5. Baby Green Turtle
Dimensions: 08×06×05 cm (3 1/8″×2 3/8″×1 7/8″) | Issue Year: 2014
This small turtle mirrors the older green turtle in palette and shape, but it carries a lightness, more roundness in its face, and more curve in its form. The balance of colors (mossy greens, golds, and soft blacks) creates harmony.
The baby green turtle adds warmth to the set. Where others suggest knowledge earned, this piece hints at beginnings, growth, and quiet potential.
6. Mini Turtle
Dimensions: 04×04×04 cm (1 5/8″×1 5/8″×1 5/8″) | Issue Year: 2014
The smallest in the collection, this turtle distills the entire theme into one palm-sized figure. Despite its size, the detailing remains sharp, with tiny scales, subtle curves, and a humble posture. This is the piece that asks nothing and holds everything. It’s a quiet nod to simplicity and being.
Turtles have carried the world in myth and stood for it in art. In many cultures, they are the living metaphor for time: slow, unhurried, and inevitable. This bundle takes that metaphor and breaks it into forms of young and old, land and sea, still and swimming.
From a design perspective, these sculptures balance detail with restraint. They don’t scream for attention. Instead, they reward a second look, then a third. The glazes are rich but never gaudy. The gold is radiant, but never loud. Everything feels earned, not added.
To place this bundle in your space is to invite calm.
To collect it is to value care, craft, and continuity.
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