Vintage Bronze French Rosary Center with Crucifix
Product Details
The Vintage Bronze French Rosary Center with Crucifix is half an inch of French devotional design: a plain Latin cross rising between a pair of scrolled volutes, acanthus curling outward at the shoulders and a shell spreading at the base. The cross is left unornamented, so it stands clear of everything around it.
The vocabulary is eighteenth-century French — the double volute, the shell, the acanthus — carried down into nineteenth-century rosary work and reduced until it would sit between two beads without crowding them. There is no lettering on the piece. A center like this asks nothing of the eye and gives the fingers something to find in the middle of the prayer, which is exactly what a center is for. It belongs on a rosary strung in an older style, where a stamped modern center would look out of place.
The rosary center 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 French Rosary Center with Crucifix is half an inch of French devotional design: a plain Latin cross rising between a pair of scrolled volutes, acanthus curling outward at the shoulders and a shell spreading at the base. The cross is left unornamented, so it stands clear of everything around it.
The vocabulary is eighteenth-century French — the double volute, the shell, the acanthus — carried down into nineteenth-century rosary work and reduced until it would sit between two beads without crowding them. There is no lettering on the piece. A center like this asks nothing of the eye and gives the fingers something to find in the middle of the prayer, which is exactly what a center is for. It belongs on a rosary strung in an older style, where a stamped modern center would look out of place.
The rosary center 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
