M116 19th century 18th century Italian carved gold-leaf

18th century Italian carved gold-leaf church tassel

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18th-century Italian church textiles with authentic gold leaf thread overlapped with Sabina Fay Braxton gilded gaufrage velvet encased in lucite stands

This decoration has been applied to a cut-out wood frame painted to coordinate with a floating antique mirror

M116 19th century 18th century Italian carved gold-leaf18th century Italian Florence fragment mounted with an ammonite and adorned with quartz crystals. The fragment perfectly mirrors the texture and curves of the ammonite and have been paired to appear as if they evolved together over time. 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 and silt left on the piece to uphold the integrity,