Sphere Angels and Devils Tessellation Round Orb Paperweight by Escher 4.5H

Heaven and Hell, Locked Together

This Escher angels devils sphere wraps one of the artist's best loved puzzles around a ball. It measures 4.5 in x 3.5 in x 3.5 in in resin with hand painted colorings.

The angels and devils are told apart by color. Angel wings interlock with the black bat shapes of the devils.

M.C. Escher drew a round tessellation, and Parastone has adapted it into a round sculptural ball.

Product Details

• Material: Resin with hand painted colorings
• Dimensions: 4.5 in x 3.5 in x 3.5 in
• Weight: 1.5 lbs
• Includes: Black stand and color description card
• Collection: Parastone Museum Collection
• Product number: ESC05

One Pattern, Two Natures

In a tessellation, every shape is also the space around its neighbor. Here the angel is the background of the devil, and the devil is the background of the angel.

That is the joke and the lesson of the Escher angels devils sphere. Good and evil need each other to make the pattern complete.

A Round Tessellation

Escher made a round woodcut of angels and devils, Circle Limit IV, in 1960. Its figures shrink toward the rim of the circle.

The Escher tessellation orb shows the same idea turned into an object. It makes a handsome Escher desktop sphere. Find kin in our Parastone Museum Replicas and Museum Statues Collection.

Display and Care

At 1.5 lbs, the Escher angels devils sphere sits steadily on its black stand on a desk or shelf. Dust it with a soft dry brush. Keep the resin out of strong sun. This angels and devils paperweight needs no special care.

M.C. Escher in Brief

Maurits Cornelis Escher lived from 1898 to 1972 and was born in Leeuwarden, in the Netherlands. He worked mainly in woodcuts and lithographs. He called his tessellations the regular division of the plane. He studied the Alhambra in Granada in 1922 and again in 1936.

For More Reading from the Web

• Follow Escher from the Alhambra tilings to his work with mathematicians on hyperbolic patterns. M. C. Escher - Wikipedia