Antique Etched Hammered Brass Umbrella Cane Stand Byzantine Orthodox Christian

Description

Antique brass umbrella or cane stand etched with Byzantine / Orthodox Christian motifs and figures including a cynocephalus (dog headed) Saint Christopher and Moses with horns holding the Ten Commandments, among other saintly figures dwarfing other smaller figures and animals. “The Orthodox icon of St-Christopher presents him as a warrior cynocephalus, a dog-headed man from Lycea. Sometimes he is also of gigantic size as well. According to his tradition, he was a Roman soldier taken from the far end of the world who converted and was martyred by an Emperor. The use of dog-headed men in iconography is not limited to the icon of St-Christopher. The Dog-headed men are seen as the farthest race present at Pentecost. Another perspective on this tradition is that it stems from a linguistic error. Christopher was a Canannite, which in Latin is Cananeus. Change one letter of the Latin and you get Canineus, or Caninite: Dog-men.” “In ancient Middle-Eastern iconography, horns are a common way of expressing the strength and the power of a god or of a king representing him.”

Condition

Good Overall - Some dents/marks/tarnish

Dimensions

11.75” x 24” / Top Diameter – 9” (Diameter x Height)