S-Shaped Brooch

Unknown

2nd–3rd century · Bronze · Medieval Art

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.

Artist

Unknown

Date

2nd–3rd century

Medium

Bronze

Culture

Roman

Department

Medieval Art

Credit line

Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1991