A CELTIC GOLD FINGER RING
A CELTIC GOLD FINGER RING

CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.

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A CELTIC GOLD FINGER RING
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
Formed from hammered sheet, the narrow overlapping ends soldered together, the entire length embossed with a scrolling vegetal motif, the background stippled, the larger central zone filled with a scroll that doubles as a stylized facing head with circular eyes, a drop-shaped nose and an incised downturned mouth, the flanking scrolls serving as the hair, the strands incised
1 1/16 in. (2.6 cm.) wide
来源
Art Market, Germany, early 1990s.

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Celtic vegetal scrolling often creates, as here, stylized facing heads. For a gold and a silver ring with similar scrolling see nos. 162-163 in Megaw and Megaw, Celtic Art.