L759 French The amethyst crystals grew roughly

The amethyst crystals grew roughly 100 million years ago after the milky quartz crystals first formed around 450 million years ago

The crystal aggregates consist of sphericalrosettes with jutting pointed crystals

baroque pearls

A pair of 18th-century Italian gold leaf candlestick tops with polished agate coral and baroque pearls

L759 French The amethyst crystals grew roughly17th century Italian vase with a crystal quartz cluster on a crystal quartz cluster base. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the historic flooding of the Arno River in 1966. There is still the original paint and silt left on the piece to uphold the integrity, craftsmanship, and history of sculptural fragment. The Florence Fragment Collection exhibited with the Museo de Medici this autumn. The Museo de' Medici or