H982 Interi Exotic minerals allow the colors

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

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

faithful reconstructions and multimedia installations

It is an example of the world’s finest crystallized calcite

and finished with Italian raw umber glaze and pozzolana (dry ground volcanic ash) for aging

H982 Interi Exotic minerals allow the colorsPetrified 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