L308 18th Century were it not for Florida's

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

16" high x 5" wide x 3

18th century Italian station of the cross on calcite crystals in matrix with a natural forming baroque pearl

cast plaster fragments

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

L308 18th Century were it not for Florida'sPair 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