The Offering Plate and The Candlesticks

 

Group members

Christine, Alexis, Keith, & Felipe

Briefly discribe the images found on your artifacts

The Offering Plate contains a woman standing at the center, standing on a moon, wearing a robe of stars, and holding a rose in her hand. 

The candlesticks have no imagry but are intricately decorated with patterns and designs.

Make sketches of the images found on your artifacts

List the various images found on your artifacts and determine their meaning

The woman stading in the center of the plate is mostly likely the Virgen de Guadalupe.  The Patroness of Mexico who is associiated with the Moon and Roses and is often depicted wearing a robe of stars. 

Create a hypothesis about where this object may have been found and who it may have been belonged to

The Offering Plate would have most likely been found in a Church that honors the Virgen de Guadalupe. 

Since the candlesticks do not have any religious imagry they could have been found anywhere, but most likely belonged to a family with money who could afford silver pieces in Colonial Mexico.

What, if anything, was similiar amongst all the artifacts examined

Many of the artifacts we examines were engraved with crowns that contained intials, especially "R" and "M".

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