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Vintage Bronze Lace and Filigree Crucifix, Small
SKU: 3c3-672-B
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The Vintage Bronze Lace and Filigree Crucifix is worked into something close to lace. The arms are pierced through and filled with curling foliate scrolls, each ending in a scalloped, leaf-shaped terminal, and a bed of leaves gathers at the foot. The corpus is finely modelled and left plain against all that openwork.
Filigree of this kind was the specialty of the small devotional workshops of the nineteenth century, where the fineness of the piercing was the whole point of the piece — a cross made mostly of light, with the figure held at its center. Small and light in the hand, it suits a child's rosary or a devotion carried every day without ceremony. Held up to the light, the pierced arms give the pattern twice over, once in metal and once in shadow.
The crucifix was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves its vintage character.
- Made in the USA
- Artisan-cast from an antique original
- Finished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.
- Buy the medal alone, or add an optional chain or cord necklace
- Add a cord or chain to have it arrive assembled and ready to wear
- Arrives in a deluxe velour jewelry box
Product Details
The Vintage Bronze Lace and Filigree Crucifix is worked into something close to lace. The arms are pierced through and filled with curling foliate scrolls, each ending in a scalloped, leaf-shaped terminal, and a bed of leaves gathers at the foot. The corpus is finely modelled and left plain against all that openwork.
Filigree of this kind was the specialty of the small devotional workshops of the nineteenth century, where the fineness of the piercing was the whole point of the piece — a cross made mostly of light, with the figure held at its center. Small and light in the hand, it suits a child's rosary or a devotion carried every day without ceremony. Held up to the light, the pierced arms give the pattern twice over, once in metal and once in shadow.
The crucifix was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves its vintage character.
- Made in the USA
- Artisan-cast from an antique original
- Finished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.
- Buy the medal alone, or add an optional chain or cord necklace
- Add a cord or chain to have it arrive assembled and ready to wear
- Arrives in a deluxe velour jewelry box
