H983 19th century The flowers are are metallic

The flowers are are metallic silver and gold

3" wide x 3

It originally comes from Brazil

Italian mirror decorated with an Italian 17th century paper and gold leaf decoration that has been taken off of walls from an important villa near Venice

18th century Italian pom pom decorated with garnets on a mica in matrix base with garnet inclusions

H983 19th century The flowers are are metallicPetrified 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