H983 19th century Italian mirror decorated with an

Italian mirror decorated with an Italian 17th century paper and gold leaf decoration that has been taken off of walls from an important villa near Venice

Interpreting the past to create a piece entirely original

18th century Italian painted and bronzed patina decorated with a matching pair of fossil polished coordinating ammonites with ruffled copper on a copper in matrix base

to the Italian store house

The fossil coral is described as a chalcedony (agate) pseudo morph after coral formed in the Oligocene-Miocene Hawthorn Group Formations from the skeleton of tiny ocean animals

H983 19th century Italian mirror decorated with anPetrified 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