750/1000 Yellow Gold Open-Work Solid Wire Occitan Cross, 20 x 24 mm

A stunning 750/1000 (18K) yellow gold cross of the Occitan type, with a width of 20 mm and a height of 24 mm without bail.

Dimensions with bail: 20x28 mm.

We selected this piece for its square wire construction - an unbeatable balance of quality, price, and size. The open-work design significantly reduces weight and makes it more attractively priced.

The Occitan cross (crotz occitana), also known as the Cross of Languedoc, is a type of cross that serves as the emblem of Occitania.

It is a cross with four equal-length arms, bearing very little resemblance to the Latin cross, which symbolizes the crucifixion of Jesus and certain martyrs.

In heraldry, it is blazoned as a cross clechy (branches shaped like key bits), voided (the field is visible through the branches), and pommetty of twelve pieces (each point is adorned with a "small apple" known as a "pomette"). Its tincture is Or (yellow) on a field of Gules (red). As a symbol, the twelve pomettes may represent the twelve Apostles - themselves echoing the twelve Tribes of Israel, which in turn may correspond to the twelve signs of the Zodiac, and so on.

Historians widely agree that this cross first appeared in Provence - in Venasque in the 12th century according to Henri Rolland, in the entourage of the Viscounts of Marseille as early as the 11th century according to Antoine de Rufi, and perhaps with Guilhem I of Provence, known as Guilhem the Liberator, who defeated the Saracens at La Garde-Freinet in 972.

Dimensions: 20x24 mm without bail, 20x27 mm with bail.

Average gold weight: 2.10 grams.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the open-work design of this product, engraving is not possible.