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Lovely Norman Cross * certainly finely chiseled and pierced silver, decorated with rhinestones, XIXth century
This cross is in good condition. It has no chain. Trace goldsmith punch.
A note: tiny deformations, slight wear of time, see photos.
traditional jewelery of the region. Indeed, the jewel in Normandy has a type and a style all its own. Its great variety of shapes and quality of manufacture indicates important goldsmiths jewelers corporation under the old regime, and powerful jewelers in the nineteenth and twentieth century. in the regional capital (Rouen) and medium-sized cities (Le Havre, Bayeux, Alencon, Coutances, Cliff and Saint-Lô). This is the seventeenth and eighteenth century that we must find the origin of the traditional forms known as the crosses of St. Lo, the crosses of Rouen, crosses bumps and Holy Spirits. These rich ornaments, reserved for the wealthy elite of the cities, but especially noble merchant bourgeoisie, popularized throughout the nineteenth century.
