Rosenkranz Silver & Enamel Crucifix

Silver hand-drawn wire and rolled sheet, glassine enamels with mineral-based colors of white, brown, pink, green and blue.  

All constructtion is accomplished with solder fabrication around an enclosed central cruciform structure outlined with continuous sawtooth bezel on both sides.  A two-sided lacework of soldered filligree was skillfully fabricated outward from and around the centerpiece, which is believed to be a reliquary.

A loop and ring are attached at the top.  From a small loop at the bottom dangles a "Jersalem rosette" ornament.  Insets with a hand-enameled crucified Christ and rose with crossed ribbon decorations were set in the center bezels, front and back, respectively.

It is a Roman Catholic practice to pray a five decade rosary every day, for world peace.

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