These arte-facts are all hand-made by the skilled craft-workers of the Wild Goose Studio in Kinsale, Co. Cork
Each piece has a shell of pure bronze backed by a resin and ceramic core.
Any variations in finish are part of it's appeal.
You can hang it on a wall or it can stand on a table, shelf, etc.
Celtic Angel
(10 cm high by 9 cm wide by 2.5 cm deep)
This angel comes from a 10th century cross at Clonmacnois, Co Offaly in Ireland
It is a powerful symbol of consolation and timely assistance; of mysterious
origin; an essential part of our existence, to be reached by our imaginatation.
Price € 46.00 free shipping
(6.3 cm high by 15.4 cm wide by 1.3 cm deep)
Even in his 87th year the great Italian renaissance artist Michelangelo
is quoted as saying "Ancora Imparo" (I am still learning)
Price € 39.50 free shipping
St. Patrick's Cross
(21 cm high by 9.5 cm wide by 1.7 cm deep)
Oldest of the great Irish high crosses, 7th century,
from Camdonagh, Co. Donegal, 10ft high.
At the bottom three pilgrims, in the middle Christ with the four Evangelists,
at the top interlacing pattern used in Celtic art to suggest the ineffable.
Price € 53.50 free shipping
St. Brendan's Boat
(6 cm high by 14 cm wide by 1.5 cm deep)
A curragh or leather boat, with the helmsman urging four oasmen as they row
heavenwards amid the sea of crosses.
The boat is vertical on the shaft of the original cross, which overlooks
Bantry Bay and is thought to celebrate St. Brendan's possible dicovery of
America some thousand years before Columbus.
Price € 39.50 free shipping
Saint
Patrick
(a free standing sculpture = 16 cm high by 7 cm wide by 4 cm deep)
Price € 46.50 free shipping
Celtic Healing Cross
(16 cm high by 7 cm wide by 1.7 cm deep)
Entwined serpents, signifying the union and balancing
of the body with the soul, an emblem of healing.
With a wand in the centre it is termed a Caduceus.
Price € 49.50 free shipping
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