Handmade pottery ceramic cross glazed rust and green with leaf design. Cross measures 7.5 x 11.5 inches. Ready to hang in your home. Excellent wedding or baby gift idea. The cross-shaped sign, represented in its simplest form by a crossing of two lines at right angles, greatly predates, in both East and West, the introduction of Christianity. It goes back to a very remote period of human civilization. It is supposed to have been used not just for its ornamental value, but also with religious significance. It may have represented the apparatus used in kindling fire, and thus as the symbol of sacred fire or as a symbol of the sun, denoting its daily rotation.