STUNNING SPANISH 18K GOLD VOTIVE CROWN, 1867. Comprising a large and impressive repousse and chased 18k gold votive crown, the main band heavily repoussed with scrolling flower forms and with bead and reel banding on top and bottom. The large overhanging leaf tip style finials pierced and repoussed with scrolling foliage and in matte and burnished finish with dedicatory inscription æF. Francisco Royo Junio 2 de 1867 por Platero E.H. de la Cruz'. Height 3.8 inches (10cm), greatest width 9.5 inches (24cm), diameter of crown (head size) 4.1 inches (10cm), total weight 188.95 grams (excluding iron support on interior of crown). Crowns such as the offered lot were often commissioned as an ex-voto offering to an answered prayer and then gifted to the church or shrine in which the statue of the interceding saint resided and subsequently placed on the statue, in this case likely an image of the Virgin Mary.

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