Vintage Bronze Medium African Cross
Product Details
The Vintage Bronze Medium African Cross is a solid, unornamented cross with real weight for its size, a smoothly rounded upper form above a broad flaring lower terminal, polished bright where the hand has worked the metal and darker in the hollows. It reads as a shape rather than a picture, and that is its whole intention.
Crosses of this solid, wearable kind belong to the long Christian traditions of the African continent, where smiths have cast the cross in bronze and brass for many centuries and worn it through every ordinary day rather than keeping it for feast days. There is no lettering and no decoration on it. At an inch and three eighths it is a quiet piece, meant to be handled as much as looked at, and the bronze warms quickly against the skin.
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 Medium African Cross is a solid, unornamented cross with real weight for its size, a smoothly rounded upper form above a broad flaring lower terminal, polished bright where the hand has worked the metal and darker in the hollows. It reads as a shape rather than a picture, and that is its whole intention.
Crosses of this solid, wearable kind belong to the long Christian traditions of the African continent, where smiths have cast the cross in bronze and brass for many centuries and worn it through every ordinary day rather than keeping it for feast days. There is no lettering and no decoration on it. At an inch and three eighths it is a quiet piece, meant to be handled as much as looked at, and the bronze warms quickly against the skin.
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
