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Summary
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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