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Vintage Bronze Small Pierced Cross, 18th C Latin American
SKU: 3c3-769-B
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The Vintage Bronze Small Pierced Cross is made almost entirely of openings. Round piercings are punched in threes at the head and at each arm, a pointed lozenge opens at the crossing, and one more round opening sits in the flared foot, leaving very little solid metal behind. The edges wander a little, as they do on a cross cut by hand.
Crosses of this type came out of the colonial workshops of eighteenth-century Latin America, where they were cut and pierced one at a time rather than struck from dies, and no two were ever quite alike. There is no corpus and no lettering here; the shape alone does the work, as it did for the first Christians who scratched it on walls. At seven eighths of an inch it is a modest everyday cross, small enough for a child and quiet enough to wear under a shirt.
The cross 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 Small Pierced Cross is made almost entirely of openings. Round piercings are punched in threes at the head and at each arm, a pointed lozenge opens at the crossing, and one more round opening sits in the flared foot, leaving very little solid metal behind. The edges wander a little, as they do on a cross cut by hand.
Crosses of this type came out of the colonial workshops of eighteenth-century Latin America, where they were cut and pierced one at a time rather than struck from dies, and no two were ever quite alike. There is no corpus and no lettering here; the shape alone does the work, as it did for the first Christians who scratched it on walls. At seven eighths of an inch it is a modest everyday cross, small enough for a child and quiet enough to wear under a shirt.
The cross 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
