M121 crucifix hand-applied gold leaf barnacles and

hand-applied gold leaf barnacles and shells

” It was a featured piece exhibiting with Il Sacro Nell’Arte or “The Sacred in Art” in the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata opening on March 22nd

while retaining the original stem tissue

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

Decorated China selenite decorated with baroque pearl

M121 crucifix hand-applied gold leaf barnacles and18th century hand carved Florentine Italian vase with a coral head adorned with elestial crystal points in the coral. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the historic flooding of the Arno River in 1966. There is still the original paint and silt left on the piece to uphold the integrity, craftsmanship, and history of sculptural fragment. The stalagmite has been mounted and adorned to appear as if it evolved together