Vintage Bronze Openwork Our Lady with Angels Medal
Product Details
The Openwork Our Lady with Angels medal is cut almost entirely through, so the design is read as much by the light behind it as by the metal. At the centre stands a small crowned Virgin in a wide triangular mantle worked with fine incised pattern, and a pierced ring around her carries winged angels and cherub heads, with short rays breaking outward past the rim.
That stiff, wide mantle belongs to the Latin American tradition of the dressed Virgin, where a shrine statue is vested by the faithful in embroidered robes that widen to the floor, and where the robe itself becomes an act of love. The angels around her are her court. Devotion of this kind treats Mary as a queen surrounded by her household, and the openwork frame turns the idea into structure, so that the Virgin is quite literally held in a ring of heaven.
The Openwork Our Lady with Angels medal was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the medal'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
The Openwork Our Lady with Angels medal is cut almost entirely through, so the design is read as much by the light behind it as by the metal. At the centre stands a small crowned Virgin in a wide triangular mantle worked with fine incised pattern, and a pierced ring around her carries winged angels and cherub heads, with short rays breaking outward past the rim.
That stiff, wide mantle belongs to the Latin American tradition of the dressed Virgin, where a shrine statue is vested by the faithful in embroidered robes that widen to the floor, and where the robe itself becomes an act of love. The angels around her are her court. Devotion of this kind treats Mary as a queen surrounded by her household, and the openwork frame turns the idea into structure, so that the Virgin is quite literally held in a ring of heaven.
The Openwork Our Lady with Angels medal was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the medal'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
