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English: Schwarzenbach Bowl, Germany.

About 420 BC

The openwork design shows characteristic early Celtic ornaments. The prototypes were palmettes and lotus-flower popular in Mediterranean antiquity. Original motifs were divided into individual leaves and the rearranged. The reason for displaying the ornaments on a bowl is still unknown, probably served as a drinking horn mounts.

Normally Berlin.

Exhibition: Kunst der Kelten, Historisches Museum Bern, Art of the Celts, Historic Museum of Bern.
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