J433 Retail 18th century Italian gold leaf

18th century Italian gold leaf and painted candlestick decorated with a calcite crystal on an optical calcite base

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

18th century Italian fragment

Crystals slowly grow from minerals with filter into the geode

hand-carved in Italy

J433 Retail 18th century Italian gold leafGeode from the Keokuk, Iowa area containing a variety of minerals with a quartz druzy interior. It took around 240 million years to create the beautiful quartz crystals covering the interior walls of the Keokuk geode. The large number of mineral inclusions and the exquisite crystal groups that they form have made the Keokuk Geodes some of the most beautiful and sought after of all geodes by museums and collectors all over the world 11" wide x 7" deep