Vintage Bronze Rose-Covered Cross with Madonna Profile
Product Details
The Vintage Bronze Rose-Covered Cross with Madonna Profile is a cross made of roses. Every arm is banked with full-blown blooms, a heavy rose weights the foot, and smaller buds climb the shaft, so the form of the cross is read through the flowers rather than around them. At the crossing an oval boss carries the veiled head of the Virgin in profile, cast low and softly the way a cameo holds it.
The rose has belonged to Our Lady for centuries, in the rosary itself, whose name means a garland of roses, and in the old litany that greets her as the mystical rose. A cross worked this way sets her beside the Passion without a word of explanation: her face at the center, her flower covering the wood. There is no corpus and no inscription, which keeps the piece unusually quiet for something so richly ornamented, and at two and a half inches it carries real weight.
The rose-covered 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 Rose-Covered Cross with Madonna Profile is a cross made of roses. Every arm is banked with full-blown blooms, a heavy rose weights the foot, and smaller buds climb the shaft, so the form of the cross is read through the flowers rather than around them. At the crossing an oval boss carries the veiled head of the Virgin in profile, cast low and softly the way a cameo holds it.
The rose has belonged to Our Lady for centuries, in the rosary itself, whose name means a garland of roses, and in the old litany that greets her as the mystical rose. A cross worked this way sets her beside the Passion without a word of explanation: her face at the center, her flower covering the wood. There is no corpus and no inscription, which keeps the piece unusually quiet for something so richly ornamented, and at two and a half inches it carries real weight.
The rose-covered 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
