L751 Crystal 18th century Italian spolvero 'cherubs'

18th century Italian spolvero 'cherubs' pattern printed onto canvas and framed with an antique scroll frame

5" wide x 3" deep x 10

Petrified wood with a polished face decorated with an 18th-century Italian leaf fragment and citrine quartz crystal points

The piece has been combined with the elements to create a historically significant yet contemporary

looking as though it organically grew from the piece

L751 Crystal 18th century Italian spolvero 'cherubs'18th century Italian fragment mounted with a calcite crystal cluster in matrix and sitting on an antique Italian glass bobeche base. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the historic flooding of the Arno River in 1966. The piece has been naturally distressed from the flood. The calcite crystal cluster in matrix comes from the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee. It is an example of the world's finest crystallized calcite