L323 retail 17th century Italian vase with

17th century Italian vase with black tourmaline and crystals on a petrified wood base

A pair of 18th century Italian candlesticks decorated with chalcedony rosettes with deposits of pyrite

Ruler Selenite with an 18th century Italian gold leaf fragment molding and gold baroque pearls on a lucite base

Size: 4" high x 5" wide x 3

Dug by hand with calcite crystal formations

L323 retail 17th century Italian vase withLate 17th century Italian copperplate engraving. It is a Venetian portrait of a nun. The inscription reads, " Unknown figure, representing a nun portrayed by Fiamengo in Casa Pamfilj Doria." It is plate 2 54. It is framed in a Sabina Faye Braxton gilded gaufrage technique on velvet. This technique derives from medieval embossing techniques of dusting embossed velvet in tarnished metals and suffusing the crushed pile with iridescent inks. This is the