B6 18th Century Petrified wood is a fossil

Petrified wood is a fossil in which the organic remains have been replaced by minerals in the slow process of being replaced with stone

and golden barite crystals tapering down the matrix

This is what makes "Herkimer diamonds" amazing specimens

The piece stands on the candlesticks' original metal drip pan trays

B6 18th Century Petrified wood is a fossil18th century Italian spolvero 'cherubs' pattern printed onto canvas and framed with an antique scroll frame. Spolvero is an artistic method of transferring a design from a print to the prepared surface of a canvas, panel, or wall. Holes are punched along the outlines of the original design followed by "pouncing" which is the application of powdered pigments that leaves a series of dots to create the tracing for the piece. This is then placed over the