Gold Leaf Natural Specimens

19th century Italian hand-carved gilded angels mounted aragonite.  The hand-carved angels were once part of a heavenly, angelic depiction in a historic church in Tuscany. The aragon...

18th century Italian gilded fragment arrows with an amethyst heart and mounted on a clear lucite base. An arrow through the heart symbolizing being deeply in love or being "struck by...

18th century Italian gilded altar candlestick with a Chesapecten fossil shell formation and natural forming baroque pearls. The 18th century Italian gilded fragment was originally a...

18th century Italian gold leaf distressed candlestick with natural forming pyrite on a calcite matrix top and mounted on a coordinating pyrite base. The gilded fragment was originall...

Sculptural 18th century Italian mecca miniature fragment with fossil agate coral. The fragment was originally part of an 18th century Italian candlestick from a historic church. I...

Italian plaster cherub with polished agate coral wings on an 18th century Italian gilded candlestick base with polished agate slices. The Italian 18th century gilded base is origina...

Ruler Selenite with gold leaf on a Lucite base. Selenite logs are single, prismatic selenite crystals from Morocco that were formed in extensive beds by the evaporation of ocean br...

Sculptural amethyst crystal with fluorite on an 18th century Italian altar base. The amethyst crystal is originally from Brazil and has a fluorite inclusion. It is mounted on an ...

Sculptural tree with an 18th century Italian gold leaf miniature helmet and mounted on a calcite and mica mineral. The helmet is hung on a type of dese...

Amethyst slice with calcite deposits and a Baroque natural forming pearl on a polished wood base. This amethyst is rare in how large it is and how it...

Sculptural 18th century Italian mecca fragment candlestick with a fossil shell and wulfenite on a polished calcite base. The fragment was originally p...

18th century Italian cross mounted on a polished pink hematite quartz heart and adorned with aurora (sunset) quartz and a natural-forming cross shaped baroque pearl. The 18th centu...

Pair of 18th century Italian dancing angels with coordinating baroque pearls on aragonite crystal clusters. The dancing angels are hand-carved wood, polychromed and gilded, original...

18th century Italian gilded angel wing mounted on a polished yellow hematoid heart and adorned with baroque pearls. The piece is inspired by "The Sacred Heart" in Catholic art histor...

18th century Italian fragment topped with natural forming clusters of fossil shells and barnacles. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the histori...

18th century Italian gold leaf candlestick top with polished fossil agate coral and natural forming Baroque pearls. The 18th century fragment comes from Tuscany and has the original candlestick wax...

18th century Italian station of the cross on calcite crystals in matrix with a natural-forming baroque pearl. This is the second station of the cross in a group of 14 and originall...

18th century Italian gilded scroll fragment mounted on a polished red and white hematoid quartz heart. The piece is inspired by "The Sacred Heart" in Catholic art history which symbo...

Pair of 18th century Italian gold leaf candlestick tops with polished fossil agate coral and a natural forming baroque pearl. The 18th century fragments come from Tuscany and have th...

A pair of 18th-century Italian gold leaf candlestick tops with polished agate coral and baroque pearls. The hand-carved, gold leaf candlestick tops originally came from a pair of can...

18th century Italian gold leaf sunray mounted on a blue celestite sphere and wrapped in perfectly coordinating blue preserved coral. The 18th century gold leaf sunray was once a par...

18th century Italian "Florence Fragment" candlestick base mounted and adorned with quartz crystals and topped with an ammonite. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the historic Florence Flood of 1966. It is part of the The Florence Fragment Collection which is exhibiting with Museo de’ Medici in Florence, Italy this fall. This is a collection of historical fragment...

Sculptural 18th century Italian gilded candlestick top with fossil agate coral. The fragment was originally part of an 18th century Italian candlestick from a historic church. It ha...

18th century Italian candlestick top with polished agate coral and a baroque pearl. The 18th century candlestick top originally came from a candlestick from a church in Tuscany. T...

Sculptural 18th century Italian candlestick with a fossil clam shell and gold leaf barnacles mounted on a cut rock coral base. The hand-carved, 18th century candlestick originally came from a church in Tuscany. It is mounted on a cut and fossilized rock coral base. The mounted fossil...

18th century Italian gold leaf sunray on a celestite sphere and wrapped in coordinating blue crystal quartz. The 18th century gold leaf sunray was once a halo motif as part of a cru...

18th century Italian "Florence Fragment" candlestick base with fossil coral and coordinating shells on a rock coral base. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found an...

18th century Italian gold leaf fragment with a black irradiated crystals on a free-forming obsidian mineral with a polished face. Obsidian is naturally occurring volcanic glass prod...

18th century Italian gold leaf fragment with a faceted cut black crystal on a free-forming obsidian mineral with a polished face. Obsidian is naturally occurring volcanic glass prod...

18th century Italian sunray with baroque pearls mounted on an aragonite crystal base. The 18th century gold leaf sunray originally part of a halo or sunburst motif in an artistic depiction in a historic church. It is mounted onto the white aragonite...

18th century Italian station of the cross on calcite crystals in matrix with a natural-forming baroque pearl. The station of the cross is originally from a historical church in Ita...

Dramatic pair of midcentury cast metal sea fans with their iconic form finished in gold leaf and presented on black glass bases.

18th century Italian hand-carved and gilded bird on a cut phantom calcite crystal base. The missing wing of the bird has been replicated with a rare coordinating calcite crystal clus...

Sculptural 'Sacred Heart' - 18th century Italian gilded angel mounted on a polished red hematoid quartz heart and adorned with a natural-forming baroque pearl. The piece is inspired ...

18th century Italian "Florence Fragment" candlestick base with a rock coral head and coordinating elestial quartz crystals crafted to the coral and the feet of the candlestick. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the historic Florence Flood of 1966. It is part of the The Florence Fragment Collection which is exhibiting with Museo de’ Medici this fall. This is a collection of historical fragment...

Herkimer diamonds in matrix mounted on an 18th century Italianhand-carved and gilded distressed molding and adorned with baroque pearls. "Herkimer diamonds" are unique and classic d...

17th century Italian hand-carved and gilded crown adorned with Himalayan diamonds and mounted on an antique gold base. This piece originally came from a historical Italian church and...

17th century Italian 'Florence Fragment' base from Tuscany topped with a naturally formed coral head. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the Fl...

18th century Italian "Florence Fragment" candlestick base mounted with a fishtail selenite and decorated with chalcedony rosettes and ecphora shells. This fragment is from a church ...

18th century Italian "Florence Fragment" mounted with calcite crystals in a matrix of sphalerite. The calcite crystal cluster with sphalerite is from Elmwood Mine in Tennessee. It i...

This remarkable fish fossil, elegantly presented in a gilded frame with a deep blue fabric background, originates from the remote and geologically significant Disco Island, located i...

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...

17th century Italian candlestick base fragment from Tuscany mounted with a rutile quartz crystal. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the Florence...

Sculptural 17th century Italian gilt candlestick mounted on chalcopyrite and adorned with gold-plated kyanite. This fragment was originally part of a candlestick from a church in It...

18th century Italian eucharist emblem fragment mounted on mica with garnets with a baroque pearl and topaz. The ecclesiastical fragment was original used to depict a symbol of the eu...

Sculptural 18th century Italian candlestick mounted with galena and pyrite deposits. The gilded fragment was originally part of a candlestick in a historical Italian church in Italy...

Sculptural 18th century Italian candlestick mounted on chalcopyrite and adorned with baroque pearls. This fragment was originally part of a candlestick from a historical church in I...

Ruler Selenite with gold leaf on a Lucite base. Selenite logs are single, prismatic selenite crystals from Morocco that were formed in extensive beds by the evaporation of ocean brine. This mineral is characterized by a silky, pearly luster called satin spare. It is then lined with gold leaf which contrasts beautifully with the sleek selenite. Interi transforms Italian artifacts...

Ruler Selenite with gold leaf on a Lucite base. Selenite logs are single, prismatic selenite crystals from Morocco that were formed in extensive beds by the evaporation of ocean brine. This mineral is characterized by a silky, pearly luster called satin spare. It is then lined with gold leaf which contrasts beautifully with the sleek selenite. Interi transforms Italian artifacts...

Italian plaster cherub with polished agate coral wings on an 18th century Italian gilded candlestick base with polished agate slices. The Italian 18th century gilded base is origina...

Made in Italy, 1970s. This lemon is made in black Murano glass with silver and gold flakes and then covered in transparent Murano glass. It might show slight traces of use since it's...

18th century Italian fragment with gold mica and baroque pearls on a phantom optical calcite base. The fragment originally came from a historical church in Italy. It is adorned with...

18th-century Italian gilded candlestick fragment with pyrite in matrix on a polished agate base. The fragment was originally part of a candlestick in a historical Italian church in ...

Pair of 18th century Italian hand-carved gold leaf angels mounted on amethyst and calcite in matrix. The hand-carved angels were once part of a he...

18th century Italian sunray with baroque pearls mounted on an aragonite crystal base. The 18th century gold leaf sunray originally part of a halo or sunburst motif in an artistic depiction in a historic church. It is mounted onto the white aragonite...

17th century Italian gold leaf fragment with calcite crystals in a rock matrix with gold leaf crystal quartz and mounted on a rock coral base. This fragment was originally part of a...

Sculptural 18th century Italian mecca vase mounted with mica and tourmaline and adorned natural-forming baroque pearls. The mica and baroque pearls perfe...

Pair of 18th century Italian fragments with a gold flower relief decorated with natural forming baroque pearls to emulate the flower on a matrix of barite and double terminated calci...

A pair of 18th century Italian finial bases with coordinating polished agate coral on a Lucite base. Florida’s state stone, agatized coral, began as li...

Sculpture designed and produced by artist and designer Raffaello Biagetti in 1990 in Italy. The sculpture is made from a 100-year-old, sectioned tree trunk set in an iron base and pa...