Vintage Bronze Classic Crucifix with Shell Tips
Product Details
The Vintage Bronze Classic Crucifix with Shell Tips carries its corpus in high relief on a cross whose arms end in fanned, shell-like terminals. Above the head a small crown-shaped canopy caps the upright, and the foot tapers to a chiselled point. The modelling is confident and the proportions traditional: the arms nearly level, the knees turned aside, the head inclined toward the right shoulder.
Everything here is carried by relief and shadow. The shell is an old pilgrim’s emblem, worn by those who walked to Compostela and long used in Christian art for baptism and for the journey made on foot, so a cross tipped with shells is a traveller’s cross as much as a rosary’s. A crucifix of this pattern was the ordinary one for generations, made in quantity and prayed with until it wore smooth, and its steadiness is the whole point of it.
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 Classic Crucifix with Shell Tips carries its corpus in high relief on a cross whose arms end in fanned, shell-like terminals. Above the head a small crown-shaped canopy caps the upright, and the foot tapers to a chiselled point. The modelling is confident and the proportions traditional: the arms nearly level, the knees turned aside, the head inclined toward the right shoulder.
Everything here is carried by relief and shadow. The shell is an old pilgrim’s emblem, worn by those who walked to Compostela and long used in Christian art for baptism and for the journey made on foot, so a cross tipped with shells is a traveller’s cross as much as a rosary’s. A crucifix of this pattern was the ordinary one for generations, made in quantity and prayed with until it wore smooth, and its steadiness is the whole point of it.
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
