C3 19th century 25" high x 4" round

25" high x 4" round

18th century Italian gilded scroll fragment mounted on a polished red and white hematoid quartz heart

18th century Italian 'Florence Fragment' with fossil coral adorned with tourmaline in matrix with gold leaf and miniature shells

17th century Italian vase mounted and encrusted with chalcedony rosettes

Similar to the obsidian historically used by indigenous groups throughout Mexico and Mesoamerica for decorative

C3 19th century 25" high x 4" round18th century Italian spolvero fresco pattern printed onto canvas and framed with a antique red frame and adorned with red ruby stones. Spolvero is an artistic method of transferring a design from a print to the prepared surface of a canvas, panel, or wall. Holes are punched along the outlines of the original design followed by "pouncing" which is the application of powdered pigments that leaves a series of dots to create the tracing for the piece.