Pseudo-filigree

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Pseudo-filigree or false filigree was a technique of making jewelry with bronze as a material. This jewelry production was common from the end of the spring Latène BI (approx. 380–250 BC) to the beginning of the Middle Latène C II (250–150 BC). This technique has been in the Carpathian Basin and / or in Moravia developed by the Eastern Celts from the Thraco - Illyrian culture with the art of granulation and Pastillage over Moravia to Bavaria passed.

technology

In contrast to filigree work , which works with precious metals , bronze can practically not be soldered, which is why the casting is used in a lost form with pseudo-filigree .

The workpieces were cast either solid or hollow and then chiseled . The most common decorations are wavy lines, braided ribbons, herringbone patterns , spirals and double spirals. These motifs of the “highlighted lines” can be found on fibulae , especially of the Bölcske type , on bangles and on belt hooks. The arm ring by Ludas (Hungary) with plant motifs is a pseudo-filigree masterpiece.

The fibula from Recy in the Marne department , along with a few other pieces of jewelry, is seen as proof that this technique was also known to the Western Celts. A combination with the pastilage also occurred here.

Pastillage

The difference between pseudo-filigree and pastillage is that here small, often superimposed slices have been cast in the lost form. The result is more reminiscent of granulation. This technique was invented in the Middle Latène period (beginning of the 3rd century BC). The main places where such pieces of jewelry are found are in Bohemia , Moravia, Slovakia , Hungary , Romania and the northern Balkans .

Finds in southern Champagne (Pogny, Département Marne), for example a triple torque (neck ring), indicate that in the 2nd half of the 3rd century BC. Celts from the Danube region immigrated here and brought this technique of jewelry making with them.

The combination of pastillage and pseudo-filigree is created by wires that surround the pastillage pattern.

literature

  • Václav Kruta: L'art celtique en Boheme: les parures métalliques du Ve au IIe siècle avant notre ère. Volume 324 of the Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études. Sciences historiques et philologiques.
  • Susanne Sievers , Otto Helmut Urban , Peter C. Ramsl: Lexicon for Celtic Archeology. LZ. Announcements of the prehistoric commission published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7001-6765-5 , pp. 1450-1451, 1540.
  • Miklós Szabó: Sur la question du filigrane dans l'art des Celtes orientaux. In: The celts in Central Europe. Alba Regia 14, Székesfehérvár 1975; P. 147 ff.
  • Miklós Szabó: Les Celtes de l'Est, Le second age du fer dans la cuvette des Carpathians. Paris 1992.