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I'm lusting after some vintage/chunky religious jewellery. I've bought a few bits and pieces in order to make something, but I want these.
By Beth Church
Beth Church
from around 1850, costs $850
Ivory rosary with gilded silver chain, carved in Germany in the first quarter of the 16th century. The rosary’s Latin inscriptions read Think on death and This is what you will be.
House of Gasoline Glamour
From the series “A New Kind of Beauty” by Phillip Toledano
Eugenio Recuenco
A requiem chasuble from around 1630.
Damien Hirst “End of an Era”
"Known as the “Holy Bodies,” they are the skeletons of Christian martyrs who were exhumed from the catacombs of Rome between 1688 and 1765. What makes these even more unusual than standard skeletal relics is that these skeletons are dressed in elaborate 1700s garb, covered in jewels, and generally look like royalty. Each year, the church celebrates a Holy-Bodies-Fest celebrating these martyrs, with the idea that we too are “Holy Bodies.” Beyond this, little about the extravagantly dressed bodies is known."
Saw this on daily_lolita today... I want a skirt like that.