Vintage Bronze Coptic Crucifix with Beaded Terminals
Product Details
Everything about the Vintage Bronze Coptic Crucifix with Beaded Terminals lives in its metalwork. Four arms flare outward and finish in clusters of small cast beads, each arm filled edge to edge with a braided, rope-like texture, and at the crossing a slender corpus rests with the head bowed to one side.
This is devotional work of the older Eastern kind, where ornament and prayer were never treated as separate things. Budded terminals and granulated beadwork of this sort belong to the Coptic tradition of Egypt, where Christians have prayed without interruption since the first century and the cross has always been carried on the body rather than kept on a shelf. Its raised texture is as much felt as seen, which is very much how such crosses were meant to be used.
The Coptic crucifix was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the crucifix'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
Everything about the Vintage Bronze Coptic Crucifix with Beaded Terminals lives in its metalwork. Four arms flare outward and finish in clusters of small cast beads, each arm filled edge to edge with a braided, rope-like texture, and at the crossing a slender corpus rests with the head bowed to one side.
This is devotional work of the older Eastern kind, where ornament and prayer were never treated as separate things. Budded terminals and granulated beadwork of this sort belong to the Coptic tradition of Egypt, where Christians have prayed without interruption since the first century and the cross has always been carried on the body rather than kept on a shelf. Its raised texture is as much felt as seen, which is very much how such crosses were meant to be used.
The Coptic crucifix was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the crucifix'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
