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The Crown Collection 👑

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17th century Italian hand-carved and gilded crown adorned with Himalayan diamonds and mounted on an antique gold base. This piece is part of The Crown Collection exhibiting with Museo de’ Medici May 27th - June 28th.

This crown artifact originally came from a historical Italian church and would have been a part of a depiction of Mary or another saintly figure. The crown is made of hand-carved wood with a centered pediment detail of a cross surrounded by carved gold foliage. Coordinating natural Himalayan diamonds ornament the crown with similar gold hues. Not actually diamonds they are double terminated quartz from the foothills of the Himalayan mountains near the borderlines of Tibet and Nepal. With the sparkling brightness and clarity of diamonds, these “diamonds” are found as doubly-terminated crystals.

The fragment artifact has been preserved and transformed with the Himalayan diamonds to create a figurative, organic, and historical sculptural work of art.

18th century Italian mecca gilded bases with iridescent abalone shells and natural-forming baroque pearls. The hand-carved bases are originally from a historical church in Italy. The back of the pair of fragments are covered with 18th century, handwritten paper.

The elements have been combined to create organic and historic sculptural works of art.