E296 google Polished agate amethyst and citrine

Polished agate amethyst and citrine cathedral with 18th century Italian flower fragment and calcite crystal

It is the birthplace of the renaissance and this collection pays tribute to the rebirth after the flood

hence the name pyrophyllite from the Greek pyros (fire)

The plaster fragments are hand cast from 18th century molds

E296 google Polished agate amethyst and citrineAgatized fossil coral. As Florida's state stone, Agatized Coral is the product of a 20 30 million year process through which the coral evolved from the skeleton of tiny ocean animals. As the silica in the ocean water hardens, it replaces the limy corals with a form of quartz known as chalcedony. Living corals are composed of individual polyp animals which harbor symbiotic algae, called zooxanthellae, within their tissues giving them a variety of