About Interi
Interi decorates fragment artifacts with minerals, precious gems, fossil agate coral, and fossil shells -- creating a piece that appears to have evolved together over time. Interpreting the past to create a piece entirely original, evolving in its own right. Fragment Creations are 16th to 18th century artifacts that have fallen into disuse. Once works of art that adorned churches throughout Europe, these antiquities have been taken away from their original context and changed their significance. This brings into existence a contemporary work of old and new. Each detail...Read More
Featured Pieces
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Processional Finial Mounted on Honey Calcite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian gilded and hand-painted processional finial with baroque pearls and adventurine and mounted on honey calcite. The piece was originally part of a processional pol...
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Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Rock Crystal
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Processional Finial Mounted on Malachite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian gilded and hand-painted processional finial with baroque pearls and mounted on malachite. The piece was originally part of a processional pole from a historical ...
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Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Malachite, Rock Crystal
Citrine Crystals in Matrix and Mounted on an 18th Century Italian Gilt Base
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Citrine crystals in matrix mounted on a gilded 18th century Italian base. The citrine crystal specimen is adorned with baroque pearls and it sits in a bed of crushed crystals and coo...
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Antique 18th Century Italian Organic Modern Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Angel Mounted on a Mica Cluster with Mica Wings
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian hand-carved angel with silver leaf shells, mica wings, and mounted on a mica cluster. The hand-carved angel was once part of a heavenly, angelic depiction in a h...
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Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal
17th Century 'Florence Fragment' Vase with Agate Coral & a Double Crystal Point
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
17th century Italian church vase with fossilized coral, a double crystal point on an agate base.
This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the historic...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Rococo Mounted Objects
Materials
Agate, Rock Crystal, Coral
17th Century 'Florence Fragment' with Fossil Agate Coral, Crystals & Chalcedony
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
17th Century Italian church vase decorated with fossil agate coral, red phantom quartz crystals, and chalcedony rosettes on polished agate base.
This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the historic flooding of the Arno River in 1966.
Fossil agate coral is mounted on top of the artifact. Fossil agate coral is Florida's state stone and is known for its unique formation that can take place over 20 million years. It's a natural gemstone that is created when prehistoric coral is gradually replaced with agate. It is adorned with coordinating red phantom crystals and chalcedony rosettes that resemble the color and texture of the piece.
The piece has been naturally distressed from the flood. It has been preserved and transformed by Jean O'Reilly Barlow, the creative director of Interi. The date of manufacture reflects when she created the piece and the period shows that the Italian fragment is originally 17th century.
The story and history of this piece and Interi's collection of Florence fragments...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Rococo Mounted Objects
Materials
Quartz, Agate, Rock Crystal, Coral
17th Century 'Florence Fragment' Vase with a Chesapecten Shell & Crystal Point
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
17th century Italian vase with a chesapecten shell, crystal point, and fossil shells on a petrified wood base.
This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved fro...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Rococo Mounted Objects
Materials
Rock Crystal
Grey Elephant Ear Selenite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural grey elephant ear selenite.
Elephant Ear Selenite are rosette formations of crystal clusters of gypsum or barite which contain sand grains ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Organic Modern Natural Specimens
Materials
Sandstone
Pair of 17th Century 'Florence Fragment' Vases with Fossil Agate Coral
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
A pair of 17th century Italian fragment vases decorated with fossil agate coral on cut rock coral bases.
The pair is from a church in Florence. They were found and saved from the hi...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Baroque Mounted Objects
Materials
Coral, Agate
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Crucifix with Selenite Sunrays and Apophyllite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian crucifix with selenite in matrix and adorned with gem beading around the cross. The selenite in matrix creates the sunrays around the crucifix. The pi...
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Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Rock Crystal
18th Century Italian Cross with Smoky Quartz Crystals and Druzy Petrified Wood
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian brown and gilded cross adorned with smoky quartz crystals and druzy petrified wood. The smoky quartz crystals are from Madagascar and druzy petrified wood from t...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Rock Crystal, Quartz
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Black Crucifix with Tourmaline in Matrix
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian crucifix adorned with tourmaline and mounted on tourmaline in a crystal matrix from Brazil.
The piece is put together by Jean O'Reilly Barlow, the artist and c...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Baroque Religious Items
Materials
Rock Crystal, Tourmaline
More About Interi
The World of Italian Sunrays: The Sunray is a decorative motif part of the hallows surrounding figures in religious Italian art. These artifacts are from the Liguria, Umbria, and Toscana provinces of Italy.