Vintage Bronze Budded Cross with Circle Center
Product Details
The Vintage Bronze Budded Cross is a cross of the late medieval kind, carried for its own sake rather than for a figure upon it. The four arms swell as they travel outward and finish in lobed terminals cut with deep grooves, and a raised faceted boss holds the crossing like a stone in a setting.
Crosses of this shape were worn across fifteenth-century Europe, in the centuries when the cross itself was the sign a Christian carried. Without a corpus, the emphasis falls where the medieval mind put it: on the wood of the Passion understood as the tree of life, a sign of victory rather than of defeat. Nothing is lettered and nothing is added, which is why a design this old still reads clearly and still looks like nothing else being made today.
The budded cross was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the piece's 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 Budded Cross is a cross of the late medieval kind, carried for its own sake rather than for a figure upon it. The four arms swell as they travel outward and finish in lobed terminals cut with deep grooves, and a raised faceted boss holds the crossing like a stone in a setting.
Crosses of this shape were worn across fifteenth-century Europe, in the centuries when the cross itself was the sign a Christian carried. Without a corpus, the emphasis falls where the medieval mind put it: on the wood of the Passion understood as the tree of life, a sign of victory rather than of defeat. Nothing is lettered and nothing is added, which is why a design this old still reads clearly and still looks like nothing else being made today.
The budded cross was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the piece's 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
