TWO ROSARY CASES OF CARVED COROZO - EARLY 19th CENTURY

Two rosary cases, of carved corozo, delicately chiselled, from the early 19th century.
The first is ornamented with arcade, and pierced with trefoils, according to the motives taken on the gothic religious edifice vocabulary .
The second is ornamented with a rosette, and with a big frieze of interlaced circles, other motives of the gothic religious sculpture.
These objects of corozo, often devotion objects, were realised by monks and nuns from religious congregations, in the end of the 18th century,

or in the early 19th, as objects of religious practice of devout people : rosary, portative chapel. etc...
Good condition
Diameter : 1,77 inches or the two - (4,5 cm).
Height: 1,38 inches for one, and 1,77 inches for the second.