SPANISH, 14TH CENTURY | PROCESSONAL CROSS

SPANISH, 14TH CENTURY

PROCESSONAL CROSS

silver gilt, on a wood core, with a modern ebonised wood and metal base and a fabric lined wood box

the box inscribed to the interior: THIS XIV CENTURY SPANISH CROSS / WAS PRESENTED TO DEAN LEOPOLD ARNAUD / BY THE FACULTY AND THE STAFF OF THE / SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY / ON THE OCCASION MARKING HIS RETIREMENT / JANUARY 9, 1959

cross: 41.5 by 34cm., 16⅜ by 13⅜in.

base: 22cm., 8⅝in.

box: 7.5 by 51 by 43cm., 3 by 20⅛ by 16⅞in.