Lot no. 43
RARE GALLIC BROOCH
in wrought iron with a long baluster-shaped handle.
The handle is in the shape of a stylised figure
with outstretched arms and legs.
ending in four teeth.
Celtic art, Middle La Tène
(3rd century BC).
Length: 50 cm
(Accidents, restorations)
PROVENANCE
- Collection of Mr F. L. M., Munich, acquired by
acquired by inheritance in the late 1980s.
- Pierre Bergé sale, 10 October 2017, lot 285.
- French private collection. The handle
of this rare object is particularly similar to
with that of the anthropomorphic dagger from the
from Pont-de-Thielle in the Laténium
archaeological museum of the Laténium in Hauterive-Neuchâtel
[inv N° BE-GAMP-9].
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