Vintage Bronze Nine Circles Cross, Antiquity Form
Product Details
The Vintage Bronze Nine Circles Cross is built entirely out of circles. Nine round domed bosses, one at the crossing and pairs at the head, the foot and the end of each arm, are joined by short flat bars across a ground left rough and hammered. There is no corpus and no lettering, and the whole statement is in the rhythm of the discs and the shadows they throw.
This is the antiquity form, the oldest strain of Christian metalwork, where a cross is worked out of the simplest elements a maker had to hand rather than modelled as a scene. The bare cross came long before the crucifix in Christian art; for centuries it was the sign itself that was worn, marked on doorposts and carried on the person, standing for the victory rather than the suffering. Held in the hand the domed bosses give it a rosary-like weight, and the hammered ground keeps the light moving across the surface as it turns. It suits anyone drawn to early, austere devotional design.
The Nine Circles Cross 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 Nine Circles Cross is built entirely out of circles. Nine round domed bosses, one at the crossing and pairs at the head, the foot and the end of each arm, are joined by short flat bars across a ground left rough and hammered. There is no corpus and no lettering, and the whole statement is in the rhythm of the discs and the shadows they throw.
This is the antiquity form, the oldest strain of Christian metalwork, where a cross is worked out of the simplest elements a maker had to hand rather than modelled as a scene. The bare cross came long before the crucifix in Christian art; for centuries it was the sign itself that was worn, marked on doorposts and carried on the person, standing for the victory rather than the suffering. Held in the hand the domed bosses give it a rosary-like weight, and the hammered ground keeps the light moving across the surface as it turns. It suits anyone drawn to early, austere devotional design.
The Nine Circles Cross 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
