M131 19th century 18th-century Italian candlestick top with

18th-century Italian candlestick top with polished agate coral and a baroque pearl

They were found and saved from the historic flooding of the Arno River in 1966

and Elizabeth Taylor

and organic work of old and new

Both minerals are well known for their beautiful and striking color

M131 19th century 18th-century Italian candlestick top with18th Century Italian base washed with the mud from the Florence flood. With a rare fossil Coral head on a petrified wood base. This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found and saved from the historic flooding of the Arno River in 1966. The Florence Fragment Collection exhibited with the Museo de Medici this autumn. The Museo de' Medici or the Medici Museum is located in the monumental Rotonda Brunelleschi which was designed in 1432 and