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Period: 18th Century
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Mecca Fragment with a Fossil Shell on Calcite
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian mecca fragment candlestick with a fossil shell and wulfenite on a polished calcite base. The fragment was originally p...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

Pair of 18th Century Italian Fragments with Gold Flower Reliefs & Golden Barite
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

A pair of branches of Mediterranean red coral (Corallium Rubrum), Sicily 1790
Located in Milan, IT
Pair of large branches of Mediterranean red coral (Corallium Rubrum). Gilt bronze bases with phytomorphic calyx stem. Connection with an oval element in Lapis Lazuli and two spirals ...
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Italian Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Lapis Lazuli, Bronze

18th Century Italian Gilded Bird with Calcite Crystal in a Sphalerite Matrix
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Quartz, Rock Crystal, Crystal, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian Cross on a Red Hematoid Quartz Heart with Baroque Pearls
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th Century Italian cross mounted on a polished red hematoid quartz heart and adorned with natural-forming baroque pearls and a cross-shaped baroque pearl. The piece is inspired by ...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Quartz, Crystal, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian Gilt Sunray on a Blue Celestite Sphere with Crystal Quartz
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian Bases with Polished Fossil Ammonites
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian (Region of Puglia) painted and bronzed bases decorated with a matching pair of polished fossil coordinating ammonites with ruffled copper on a copper in a matrix...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Copper

18th Century Italian Cross with Fossil Agate Coral and Mounted on Fossil Coral
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian cross with fossil agate coral and mounted on fossil coral. The fossil agate coral and fossil coral are put together with the 18th century cross to lo...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal, Agate, Coral

18th Century Italian Hand-Carved Bird with Calcite Crystal in Matrix
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian hand-carved and gilded bird with a hand-carved wood head with calcite crystals in matrix on a cut optical calcite crystal base. This fragment artifact is origin...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Crystal, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian 'Florence Fragment' Candlestick Base with Fossil Coral
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Coral, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian 'Florence Fragment' with Fossil Coral and Lemon Crystals
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian "Florence Fragment" with fossil agate coral and natural lemon quartz crystals and mounted on a coral base.  This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was f...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Coral, Rock Crystal, Quartz

18th Century 'Florence Fragment' with Fossil Coral on a Fossil Coral Cluster
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian "Florence fragment" with a fossil coral head on a fossil coral cluster base. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found ...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Coral

18th Century Italian 'Florence Fragment' Candlestick Base with Rock Coral
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Coral, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian Cross on a Pink Hematoid Quartz Heart with Aurora Crystals
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian Sunray on a Blue Celestite Sphere with Blue Coral
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Coral, Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

Life-Sized Spoonbill Print – Dutch Ornithology by Sepp and Nozeman, 1789
Located in Langweer, NL
Spoonbill Antique Dutch Bird Print by Sepp and Nozeman, 1789 – Life-Sized Study This impressive hand-colored copper engraving titled *Platalea leucorodia* portrays the Eurasian spoo...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Paper

18th Century Italian Sunray with Tangerine Quartz on Phantom Red Calcite
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian gold sunray fragment with tangerine crystal quartz points on a polished optical calcite base. The hand-carved, hand-painted wood fragment sunray was once part of...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Quartz, Rock Crystal, Crystal

Red Hematoid Quartz Heart with an 18th Century Italian Angel and a Baroque Pearl
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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 ...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Quartz, Gold Leaf

Sculptural 18th Century Rococo Italian 'Florence Fragment' with Rare Stalagmite
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian "Florence Fragment" vase with a rare application of coordinating stalagmite on a polished petrified wood base. It originally was found a saved from the Florence ...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal

18th Century Italian Sunray Mounted on a Yellow Hematoid Quartz Heart
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural Sacred Heart - 18th century Italian sunray mounted on a yellow hematoid heart and adorned with yellow crystal quartz points. The piece is inspired by "The Sacred Heart" in...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

Sculptural 18th Century Italian Miniature Mecca Fragment with Fossil Agate Coral
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Agate, Coral, Gold Leaf

18th Century 'Florence Fragment' with Elestial Quartz and Ecphora Shells
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian "Florence fragment" vase with an elestial quartz point, chalcedony rosettes, and ecphora shells on a petrified wood base. The elestial quartz has an additional c...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Quartz, Rock Crystal

Red Hematoid Quartz Heart with 18th Century Italian Cross on a Baroque Pearls
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 'Sacred Heart' - 18th century Italian cross mounted on a polished red hematoid quartz heart and adorned with natural-forming baroque pearls and a cross-shaped baroque pear...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Quartz, Gold Leaf

Sculptural 18th Century Italian Miniature Fragment with Fossil Agate Coral
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian miniature fragment with fossil agate coral. The fragment was originally part of an 18th century Italian candlestick from a historic church. It has the original gold leaf and red bole paint that coordinates with the fossil agate coral. Fossil agate coral is also Florida...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Agate, Coral, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian Fragment with Fossil Agate Coral and a Silver Leaf Shell
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian candlestick top fragment with polished agate coral and a coordinating silver-leaf shell. The hand-carved, 18th century silver candlestick top origin...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal, Agate, Silver Leaf

18th Century Italian Fragment with Baroque Pearls on Optical Calcite
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian fragment adorned with baroque pearls and mounted on a optical calcite base. The fragment originally came from a historical church in Italy. It is adorned with na...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal

17th Century Italian 'Florence Fragment' Vase Mounted with Chalcedony Rosettes
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
17th century Italian vase mounted and encrusted with chalcedony rosettes on a petrified wood base. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the historic Florence Flood of 1966. This was one of the worst floods recorded since the Renaissance and drew thousands of volunteers from all over the world to help save the city known for its precious history, artwork, artifacts, and rare books. The volunteers were called "the mud angels" because of the mud and silt left everything from the damage of the flood. There is still the original paint and silt left on the piece to uphold the integrity, craftmanship, and history of sculptural fragment. The chalcedony rosettes perfectly emulate the color and texture of the piece. The story and history of this piece and Interi's collection of Florence fragments...
Category

Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal

Pair of 18th Century Italian Dancing Angels with Baroque Pearls on Aragonite
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Pair of 18th century Italian dancing angels with coordinating baroque pearls on Aragonite crystal clusters. The dancing angles are hand-carved wood, polychromed and gilded, original...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian Fragment Base with Agatized Coral on an Agate Slice
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian fragment base mounted with agatized coral on a polished agate base. The 18th century hand-carved fragment base is originally from Tuscany. The polish...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Agate, Coral

Pair of 18th Century Italian Finial Bases with Agate Coral on a Lucite Base
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Agate, Coral, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian Gold Leaf Sunray with a Baroque Pearl on an Aragonite Base
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

Sculptural 18th Century Italian Fragment Base with Agatized Coral on Agate
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian fragment base mounted with agatized coral on a polished agate base. The 18th century hand carved fragment base is originally from Tuscany. The polish...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Agate, Coral

18th Century Italian Sunray with Tangerine Crystal Quartz on Angle-Plated Quartz
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian sunray adorned with tangerine crystal quartz points on an angle plated quartz. Angle-plated quartz is an extremely rare form of quartz and is only found in the u...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Quartz, Rock Crystal

Pair of 18th Century Italian Gilded Bases with Angel Wing Shells and Pearls
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
A pair of 18th century Italian gilded and hand-carved bases with two matching angel wing shells and adorned with coordinating natural forming baroque pearls. The hand-carved, gold le...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian 'Florence Fragment' Candlestick with Fishtail Selenite
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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 ...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal, Crystal, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian Eucharist Emblem Fragment Mounted on Mica with Garnet
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Crystal, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

18th Century 'Florence Fragment' with a Calcite Crystal Cluster on Bobeche
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian fragment with a calcite crystal cluster in matrix mounted on a Italian glass bobeche base. The fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved f...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal

Sculptural 18th Century Italian Fragment Mounted on Phantom Optical Calcite
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian 'Florence Fragment' with an Ammonite and Crystal Quartz
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal, Coral, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian 'Florence Fragment' with Calcite Crystals and Sphalerite
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Crystal, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian 'Florence Fragment' with Smokey Crystal Quartz and Ammonite
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century candlestick base from Tuscany mounted with a coordinating ammonite and dark, smoky quartz crystal point. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and sav...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal, Quartz

18th Century Italian 'Florence Fragment' with a Chalcedony Rosette
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
17th century Italian fragment with a chalcedony rosette. It has antique hand-written Italian inscriptions on the base. The chalcedony mineral mimics the color and texture of the distressed wood fragment. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the historic Florence Flood of 1966. This was one of the worst floods recorded since the Renaissance and drew thousands of volunteers from all over the world to help save the city known for its precious history, artwork, artifacts, and rare books. The volunteers were called "the mud angels" because of the mud and silt left everything from the damage of the flood. There is still the original paint and silt left on the piece to uphold the integrity, craftmanship, and history of sculptural fragment. The story and history of this piece and Interi's collection of Florence fragments...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal

Citrine Crystals in Matrix and Mounted on an 18th Century Italian Gilt Base
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...
Category

Italian Organic Modern Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian Crucifix on a Tourmaline in Crystal on a Obsidian Base
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian crucifix with a hand carved figure of Christ decorated with tourmaline in crystal quartz on a polished obsidian base.
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Wood

18th Century 'Florence Fragment' with Fossil Agate Coral and Herkimer Diamonds
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian fragment with fossil agate coral and Herkimer diamonds on a lucite base. Fossil agate coral is mounted on top of the artifact. Fossil agate coral is Florida's s...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Agate, Coral, Rock Crystal

18th Century Italian Leaf Fragment with Baroque Pearl & Barite Crystals on Agate
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian leaf fragment with a natural forming baroque pearl and barite crystals on barite in matrix and polished agate base. The crystals have encrusted themselves around...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal, Agate

18th Century Italian Fragment with Chalcopyrite, Calcite Crystals, and Kyanite
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian fragment with chalcopyrite on a druzy crystal matrix with calcite crystals and gold-plate kyanite. Th...
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Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal

18th Century Italian Gold Leaf Sunray with a Baroque Pearl on Aragonite
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

18th Century 'Florence Fragment' Base with Fossil Shells in Matrix
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian 'Florence Fragment' base topped with a variety of fossil shells in matrix and mounted on a rock coral base. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was f...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Coral

18th Century Rococo Italian 'Florence Fragment' with Fossil Shells and Barnacles
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
Category

Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

18th Century Italian Figure of Christ on Crystal with Mica with Baroque Pearls
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian, distressed, hand carved and painted figure of Christ on crystal with mica and tourmaline with natural forming baroque pearl. The figure of Christ came off of a ...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal

17th Century Italian 'Florence Fragment' with Free-Formed Copper and Selenite
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
17th century Italian "Florence Fragment" mounted with a selenite crystal and free-formed copper. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the histori...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Crystal, Rock Crystal, Copper

18th Century Italian Mecca Vase with Mica, Tourmaline, and Baroque Pearls
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian mecca vase mounted with mica and tourmaline and adorned natural-forming baroque pearls. The mica and baroque pearls perfe...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

Pair of 18th Century Italian Gold Leaf Candlesticks with Polished Coral & Pearls
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal, Coral, Gold Leaf

Sculptural Tree with an 18th Century Italian Miniature Helmet Mounted on Calcite
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
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Italian Organic Modern Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf

Sculptural 18th Century 'Florence Fragment' with a Fossil Shell and Crystal Base
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th Century Italian candlestick fragment with unpolished crystals and rare marine fossil (Siliquaria Cumingii) collected from the coast of Minabe from the Honshu island in Japan. Th...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal

18th Century Italian Gold Candlesticks with a Wallpaper Base and Polished Jasper
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian gold leaf wood candlestick with a coordinating antique wallpaper base decorated with polished jasper stones. The gold leaf cand...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Multi-gemstone

18th Century Italian Fragment with Mica in Matrix and Crystal Quartz Points
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian fragment decorated with mica and crystal quartz points on a polished agate base. The 18th century fragment originally came from a candlestick in a his...
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Italian Rococo Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal, Agate, Quartz

18th Century Italian Gold Leaf Candlestick with Chalcopyrite and Baroque Pearls
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
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...
Category

Italian Baroque Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf, Metal

Sculptural 18th Century Italian Gold Leaf Figure of Christ on a Calcite Cluster
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian gold leaf wood fragment figure of Christ (Florence) on calcite crystal cluster in matrix. The calcite crystal cluster is from Elmwood Mine, Tennesse...
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Italian Modern Antique 18th Century Natural Specimens

Materials

Rock Crystal

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