S-Shaped Brooch
Unknown Artist
With sinuous, asymmetrical designs and swirling arrangements of commas, circles, and fan shapes, this varied group of objects conveys the pervasiveness of a Celtic aesthetic in the Empire's western provinces in the first centuries A.D.
Credit: Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1991
2nd-3rd century
Bronze
4.0 x 2.6 cm
1991.279
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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