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Cross

c. 1280-1300

Italy, Venice

This cross is made from rock crystal which have been drilled though the center and fastened together with a golden rod. Venice was an important center of rock crystal cutting near the end of the 1200s. This cross may have been used in liturgical processions.

Cleveland Museum of Art

www.clevelandart.org/art/1927.169

 

 

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