Vintage Bronze Southwest Stamped Cross with Oval Boss
Product Details
The Vintage Bronze Southwest Stamped Cross speaks the Southwest silversmith's language: scalloped, shell-like ends, a border of short chisel stamps worked all the way around the outline, and a center opened into four pointed petals that meet at a raised oval boss stamped with fine lines.
Crosses like this one come out of the long meeting of Catholic devotion with Native and Hispanic craft in the Southwest, where stamped and chiselled ornament took the place of cast detail and the cross was usually left without a corpus. The bare cross is not a lesser thing there. It is the sign itself, worn plainly and carried by families through generations of mission churches and village feast days. The open spaces do as much work as the metal, which is what gives the cross its lightness against the chest.
The Southwest 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 Southwest Stamped Cross speaks the Southwest silversmith's language: scalloped, shell-like ends, a border of short chisel stamps worked all the way around the outline, and a center opened into four pointed petals that meet at a raised oval boss stamped with fine lines.
Crosses like this one come out of the long meeting of Catholic devotion with Native and Hispanic craft in the Southwest, where stamped and chiselled ornament took the place of cast detail and the cross was usually left without a corpus. The bare cross is not a lesser thing there. It is the sign itself, worn plainly and carried by families through generations of mission churches and village feast days. The open spaces do as much work as the metal, which is what gives the cross its lightness against the chest.
The Southwest 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
