Memento Mori Standing Altar Crucifix with Skull, Silver-Tone Corpus and Ebonized Base, Circa 1890s-1920s

Slender standing crucifix with a silver-tone corpus on a black cross and turned ebonized base, of the type kept on home altars and nightstands. A skull is included as a memento mori, a reminder of mortality traditionally placed at the foot of the cross to represent Golgotha, the "place of the skull." Shows light wear.