Irish Celtic - Ultimate La Tene Style - Enamelled Double Roundel
Lot No. 581

Circa 7th century AD. A superb and excessively rare pair of Irish Celtic enamelled flat toroid roundels in the 'Ultimate La Tène' style together with a plain separating disc; each roundel ornamented on the exposed face with a similar (but not identical) series of eight and six alternating triskeles and trumpet-spirals in a triple spiral, eight/six spot roundel form respectively, executed with wondrous accuracy; the triskeles, spirals and reversing curves reserved against a rich, red enamel ground; the plain border rim of each disc pierced with six small equidistant fixing holes, corresponding with each other and with those on the central plain disc; the reverse of each outer roundel and both sides of the separating disc marked at one fixing hole position to facilitate symmetrical assembly of the whole unit; the central apertures of the outer roundels of different sizes (15mm to one and 21mm to the other), with the central plain separating disc unperforated; the reverse of each roundel also showing the three and four respectively compass perforations from which the designs were laid out.

Estimate: £17,500 - 22,500 (EUR 20,880 - 26,850; USD 27,730 - 35,650)