Vintage Bronze Small Coptic Cross of the Five Wounds
Product Details
The Vintage Bronze Small Coptic Cross of the Five Wounds opens its arms into three soft lobes apiece and marks its face with five ringed studs, one at the crossing and one on each arm. Those five points are read as the Five Wounds of Christ: the two hands, the two feet, and the pierced side. The relief is shallow and even, the kind of quiet ornament made to be worn every day.
Devotion to the Five Wounds is very old, a way of praying the Passion by holding to its particulars rather than its abstraction. Lobed arms and ringed bosses of this kind belong to the cross traditions of the Coptic and Ethiopian Christian world, where the cross is the ordinary ornament of church and household alike, and where the same five marks turn up on everything from a great processional cross to a child's first small one.
The 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 Small Coptic Cross of the Five Wounds opens its arms into three soft lobes apiece and marks its face with five ringed studs, one at the crossing and one on each arm. Those five points are read as the Five Wounds of Christ: the two hands, the two feet, and the pierced side. The relief is shallow and even, the kind of quiet ornament made to be worn every day.
Devotion to the Five Wounds is very old, a way of praying the Passion by holding to its particulars rather than its abstraction. Lobed arms and ringed bosses of this kind belong to the cross traditions of the Coptic and Ethiopian Christian world, where the cross is the ordinary ornament of church and household alike, and where the same five marks turn up on everything from a great processional cross to a child's first small one.
The 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
