Jewelry Relief - Skull on Silver Tray

Name: Jewelry Relief - Skull on Silver Tray
Brand: Repurfect
Price: 259.00 USD
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Danielle Nathan doesn't melt anything down. Every piece in this collection — each bead, brooch, charm, and stray earring — stays exactly as it was, hand-placed into a silhouette that only comes together when you step back. Get close, and you can still trace where each individual piece came from. Step back, and it's a fish. A lobster. A bear built entirely out of somebody else's jewelry box.

That tension is the whole point. Danielle sees it as a small stand-in for how people — and nature, and pretty much everything — actually work: made of distinct, unrepeatable parts that only add up to something larger when they're allowed to sit together, differences intact. Nothing here was smoothed into sameness to fit the shape. The shape found room for all of it instead.

Danielle's skull works entirely in silver-on-silver — every bead, pearl, and charm in tones of pewter, dove grey, and antique white, mounted directly onto a hand-engraved silver tray rather than tucked behind glass. A floral rosette sits at the crown like an afterthought that became the focal point, flanked by two small silver roses in the eye ridges. Mother-of-pearl chips cluster at the jaw, catching light nothing else on the piece does.

Danielle's noted that teeth are the one feature that doesn't change much between a living face and a skull — the same shape, the same placement, before and after everything else is gone. It's the detail she leaves closest to true, even while every color and texture around it comes from somewhere else entirely.

The skull itself stands about 5.5" tall, mounted on a 12" diameter antique silver tray, its scrollwork engraving still catching light around the edges. Can be displayed on a stand, as shown, or the hanging loop on the back means it's ready for the wall — less a serving piece now than something meant to be looked at.

This item is one of a kind. You are purchasing the exact item shown in the image(s).

About Danielle Nathan

Danielle Nathan spent years building a career in corporate banking and software engineering — solid work, but not the kind that left room for the parts of her that wanted to make things. Based in Buffalo, NY, she's always been drawn to nature, animals, and travel, and somewhere in that pull toward the wider world, she found her way to reinvention — not just of herself, but of objects other people had already decided to let go of.

Danielle calls herself the Boho Banker, and her art is built entirely from reclaimed jewelry — sourced from estate sales, thrift stores, garage sales, wherever inspiration happens to turn up. Each piece starts as a pile of orphaned beads, brooches, and charms with no obvious connection to each other, and ends as a silhouette: a fish, a bear, a skull. Every individual item is chosen and placed by hand, close enough together to form a recognizable shape, loose enough that you can still see where each piece came from if you look.

That tension is the whole idea. Danielle sees her work as a small stand-in for how people, and nature, and pretty much everything, actually function — made of distinct, unrepeatable parts that only add up to something larger when they're allowed to stay different instead of being smoothed into sameness. Nothing in her pieces was melted down or disguised. It was just given somewhere new to belong.