L269 Retail 18th century hand-colored pencil drawing

18th century hand-colored pencil drawing from a French cabinet maker's book

18th century candlestick top originally came from a candlestick from a church in Tuscany

a double crystal point on an agate base

18th-century Italian candlestick decorated with free-forming glass and baroque pearls on an Italian glass bobeche base

these Florence fragments in particular stand apart

L269 Retail 18th century hand-colored pencil drawingPolished petrified wood with tangerine quartz cluster on a lucite base. Petrified wood is a special type of fossilized wood. This type of mineralized petrified wood went through an intricate process that took place over millions of years. Petrifaction is the result of a tree or tree like plants having been replaced by stone via a mineralization process that often includes permineralization and replacement. Size: 8" high x 5" wide x 5" deep