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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9747268, member: 2844"]A beautiful trefoil cross, K.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie49" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I would have guessed 19th century because 19th Century gold and gilded jewellery is often hollow. Precious metals were more rare than they are now. (Not as many mines.)</p><p>I agree with it being vermeil in those countries that accept vermeil as using a low fineness gold, so it is OK to call it vermeil in the UK.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The shape as such is a trefoil cross, my favourite cross shape.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> Some people call it a button cross or a budded cross. All these terms refer to the shape with the three rounded shapes at the end.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as I know it is used by all Roman and Eastern Catholic denominations, which include the Orthodox churches. In Catholicism the three 'buds' sybolize the Holy Trinity.</p><p>I can see why someone would call it Gothic, with those trefoil shapes. But it is pre-Gothic, it has its origins in pre-Christian times. In pre-Christian Europe the three buds stood for earth, sky and water.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9747268, member: 2844"]A beautiful trefoil cross, K.:happy: I would have guessed 19th century because 19th Century gold and gilded jewellery is often hollow. Precious metals were more rare than they are now. (Not as many mines.) I agree with it being vermeil in those countries that accept vermeil as using a low fineness gold, so it is OK to call it vermeil in the UK. The shape as such is a trefoil cross, my favourite cross shape.:) Some people call it a button cross or a budded cross. All these terms refer to the shape with the three rounded shapes at the end. As far as I know it is used by all Roman and Eastern Catholic denominations, which include the Orthodox churches. In Catholicism the three 'buds' sybolize the Holy Trinity. I can see why someone would call it Gothic, with those trefoil shapes. But it is pre-Gothic, it has its origins in pre-Christian times. In pre-Christian Europe the three buds stood for earth, sky and water.[/QUOTE]
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