Vintage Bronze Flowered Openwork Crucifix
Product Details
Each of the four arm ends of the Vintage Bronze Flowered Openwork Crucifix opens into a pierced panel filled with a five-petalled flower set among curling tendrils, and a further flower fills the flared foot. The corpus hangs quietly at the crossing, the head inclined, modeled with restraint against all that ornament.
Flowering crosses belong to a long habit in Catholic art of setting the instrument of the Passion among signs of new life: the dead wood that puts out leaf, the Tree of the Cross that becomes the Tree of Life. The openwork keeps the piece light in the hand and lets the flowers read clearly against whatever is behind them, and the antiquing stays dark in the recesses so the petals keep their crispness.
The flowered 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
Each of the four arm ends of the Vintage Bronze Flowered Openwork Crucifix opens into a pierced panel filled with a five-petalled flower set among curling tendrils, and a further flower fills the flared foot. The corpus hangs quietly at the crossing, the head inclined, modeled with restraint against all that ornament.
Flowering crosses belong to a long habit in Catholic art of setting the instrument of the Passion among signs of new life: the dead wood that puts out leaf, the Tree of the Cross that becomes the Tree of Life. The openwork keeps the piece light in the hand and lets the flowers read clearly against whatever is behind them, and the antiquing stays dark in the recesses so the petals keep their crispness.
The flowered 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
