Large Celtic Stone Head meditteranean Still life featuring Dutch Delft

Still life featuring Dutch Delft lion plate

This particular piece has a rare central motif of wheat sheaves connecting it to an agricultural family

Heads such as these were objects of ritual in the pre Roman Celtic World

A charming and beautifully poised depiction of Cupid in thought c

Large Celtic Stone Head meditteranean Still life featuring Dutch DelftA dramatic large, deeply carved sandstone Celtic Stone head from the Iron Age or possible pre Roman Celtic Britain period. Heads such as these were objects of ritual in the pre Roman Celtic World. The deeply incised carved pinholes for pupils in the eye sockets served to represent a point of spiritual communication with the ritual object, and sometimes were filled with a coloured glass insert. In Celtic Britain and further afield many shrines were set