Description
Outstanding and unique memento mori memorial cross pendant featuring incredibly intricate hair art. The gold filled cross features a center glass window housing a sampling of delicately braided human hair, but incredibly the recessed body of the cross also features the most delicate and intricate weaving of human hair as well. Outstanding and incredibly unique!
Hair art originated in 17th Century England to mourn and commemorate the dead. During the Victorian era the sentimentality of hair art surged in popularity. The Victorians had become obsessed with immortality and preserving the memory of the deceased. Hair was a perfect medium as it never decayed. Thus, hair jewellery and art immortalized the deceased forever, providing a romantic and intimate portrait of life, not death.
2 inches tall
