L308 18th Century The distressed gold leaf on

The distressed gold leaf on the base coordinates with the baroque pearls

were it not for Florida's repeated glaciations exhuming these semi-precious anomalies of water and time

He is also considered a founding father of Renaissance architecture

The piece was created by the artist Elena Rousseau for Interi

cast plaster fragments

L308 18th Century The distressed gold leaf onPair of 18th century Italian fragments with a gold flower relief decorated with natural forming baroque pearls to emulate the flower on a matrix of barite and double terminated calcite crystals. This particular form of barite comes from Elk Creek, Meade County, South Dakota. Its locality is well known for producing unusual and rare specimens of golden barite crystals on an attractively contrasting matrix of a charcoal gray color. Specimens of golden