Unicorn Head Ornament

Regular price $21.82

Among unicorn gifts there is a spectrum, and it runs from the frankly deranged to the quietly magnificent; this hand-blown glass Unicorn Head sits firmly at the magnificent end, a single noble profile rendered in glass that catches light the way the animal supposedly catches the untrainable. Chive has been hand-blowing glass since 2004, and the house rule from year one has been that whimsy is only worth doing if it is done seriously. A unicorn head done seriously is a strange and lovely thing: horn forward, gaze level, entirely convinced of its own existence. The Royal Ontario Museum keeps carved and cast creatures that no one ever saw and everyone believed in — griffins, dragons, the whole bestiary of wishful thinking — and this belongs in that company. It is the best of the unicorn gifts precisely because it does not apologize. It is a head. It is a horn. It believes. Set it where the light will find it, and let it hold its impossible ground.