M306 cross It is mounted on a

It is mounted on a coordinating smoky quartz crystal base

and baroque pearls on a carved wood 18th-century Italian candlestick base

18th century Italian painted candlestick with tole metal foliage on an optical calcite base with phantom inclusions and shells

it swells up to many times its original volume

M306 cross It is mounted on a17th century Italian hand carved and gilded crown bejeweled with rutile quartz crystals and baroque pearls. It is mounted on a coordinating gilded fragment with a metal crown base that is surrounded by larger pieces of rutile quartz crystals. Rutilated quartz is a rare type of crystal that contains inclusions of rutile which look like gold needles intersecting through the crystal quartz. The crown was originally from a historical Italian church. The