Dragon-Shaped Brooch

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100–300 · Copper alloy with champlevé enamel · Medieval Art

With sinuous, asymmetrical designs and swirling arrangements of commas, circles, and fan shapes, this brooch conveys the pervasiveness of a Celtic aesthetic in the Empire's western provinces in the first centuries A.D.

Artist

Unknown

Date

100–300

Medium

Copper alloy with champlevé enamel

Culture

Celtic or Roman

Department

Medieval Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1980