H982 Interi 5" tall x 5

5" tall x 5

18th century Italian church candlestick base decorated with chalcopyrite in matrix with calcite crystals

Exotic minerals allow the colors to form in each specimen that has been polished by hand

A pair of 18th century Italian fragments with polished agate coral on a lucite base

Petrified wood decorated with a chalcedonian rosette and hemimorphite on a lucite base

H982 Interi 5" tall x 5Petrified wood with hand forged Italian style Iron appliqu. Petrified wood are fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation, the result of trees having completely transformed to stone through the process of permineralization, a thousand year process. All organic materials have been replaced with minerals, such as quartz, while retaining the original stem tissue. Unlike other fossils that are usually compressions, petrified wood is a three dimensional