This may not be allowed since it's not an
antiquity, so please delete if needed.
I
hope someone in this group might know whether this item is a reproduction of a specific piece of early
Christian art. It's
cast metal, with felt on the back as though meant to be a paperweight or something.
I recognize the design as having some symbolism from the early days of
Christian art (
chi rho,
peacock as symbol of immortality, etc). Overall, its decoration is very similar to this fifth-century sarcophagus (
https://thevcs.org/bodily-resurrection/life-latent-death) but the decoration of my paperweight does not precisely match anything that I have seen. It seems like such an archaic thing to make if it is not meant to be a reproduction of something, but I haven't been able to find what if anything it is copying.
Does anyone by chance recognize whether this is a reproduction of a specific piece of early
Christian art? Or is it just meant to invoke the feel of early art?
