L308 Retail An 18th-century Tuscan gilded fragment

An 18th-century Tuscan gilded fragment emerges from the past and reinvents itself with Ethiopian opal and a Phoenix swirl of tangerine flames made from sculpted canvas and oil paint

The natural elements have been combined to appear as if they evolved together over time

This piece is part of a collection of Stations of the Cross from a church in Tuscany

The 18th century Italian

It appears to have "grown out" of the calcite and mica base

L308 Retail An 18th-century Tuscan gilded fragmentPair 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 calcite crystals. This particular form of barite comes from Elk Creek, Meade County, South Dakota. Its locality is well known for producing unusual and rare specimens of golden barite crystals on an attractively contrasting matrix of a charcoal gray color. Specimens of golden