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LOT 0375
Iron Age Celtic Bronze 'Plastic Style' Bangle
2ND CENTURY B.C.
4 in. (3 7/8 in.) (149 grams, 10.1 cm wide (245 grams total, 97 cm high including stand)).
Round in section with three plain segments dividing panels of La Tène Style spiral and comma-leaf ornament; mounted on a custom-made stand.
Provenance
European private collection, 1980s.
with ArtAncient Ltd, 2014.
Private collection, London.
Literature
Cf. Stead, I. & Rigby, V., The Morel Collection. Iron Age Antiquities from Champagne in the British Museum, London, 1999, item 2090, for type; Jope, E.M., Early Celtic Art in the British Isles, 2 vols, Oxford, 2000, pl.34(c).
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