M119 google Petrified wood is a special

Petrified wood is a special type of fossilized wood

A pair of 18th-century Italian candlestick tops with fossil agate coral and baroque pearls on an agate base

and baroque pearls on a carved wood 18th-century Italian candlestick base

Size: 10 1/2" high x 4" round

The Museo de' Medici or “the Medici Museum” is located in the monumental Rotonda Brunelleschi which was designed in 1432 and built by Filippo Brunelleschi

M119 google Petrified wood is a special18th century Italian Florence fragment topped and adorned with calcite crystals on the original fragment base. The calcite crystals come from the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee. It is an example of the world's finest crystallized calcite (referenced from the "American Mineral Treasure" book, pg. 337). 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