17th century Italian Florence fragment candlestick adorned with fossil barnacles and smokey crystal points and mounted on a fossil vertebrae and a glass bobeche base. 

This fragment is from Florence and was found and saved from the Florence Flood of 1966. The fragment still holds the original carvings and remnants of the flood. 

The exhibition of the Florence Fragment Collection premiered with the Museo de’ Medici last fall. The Museo de' Medici or “the Medici Museum” is located in the monumental Rotonda Brunelleschi which was designed in 1432 and built by Filippo Brunelleschi, a famous Italian architect who also built the Florence dome. He is also considered a founding father of Renaissance architecture. The Museo de’ Medici is devoted to preserving the history of the Medici family and exhibiting precious collections of works of art, historical relics, original documents, faithful reconstructions and multimedia installations.

While many fragments are distressed due to age, these Florence fragments in particular stand apart. They symbolize a history that has been carried through the flood, to the Italian store house, collected by the Interi studio, shown in the museum, and now can be purchased for the modern home or gallery.