Vintage Bronze Pierced Heart Milagro, Mexico
Product Details
The Vintage Bronze Pierced Heart Milagro is a solid heart modeled in full relief, its surface covered with branching veins that rise from the point toward the crown so that the metal seems to move. A long dagger enters at the upper left and the blade emerges again at the lower right, run clean through.
Milagros are the small votive figures left at Mexican shrines in petition or in thanks, each one naming the trouble it is offered for. The pierced heart is the most eloquent of them. It stands for the sorrow of the Blessed Virgin, whose soul a sword was foretold to pierce, and equally for any grief the person offering it cannot say aloud. There is no lettering on the piece. It is direct and unsentimental folk sculpture, and it has real weight in the hand for its size.
The pierced heart milagro 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 Pierced Heart Milagro is a solid heart modeled in full relief, its surface covered with branching veins that rise from the point toward the crown so that the metal seems to move. A long dagger enters at the upper left and the blade emerges again at the lower right, run clean through.
Milagros are the small votive figures left at Mexican shrines in petition or in thanks, each one naming the trouble it is offered for. The pierced heart is the most eloquent of them. It stands for the sorrow of the Blessed Virgin, whose soul a sword was foretold to pierce, and equally for any grief the person offering it cannot say aloud. There is no lettering on the piece. It is direct and unsentimental folk sculpture, and it has real weight in the hand for its size.
The pierced heart milagro 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
