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Basse Yutz Flagons
The Basse Yutz Flagons are a pair of Iron Age ceremonial drinking vessels that date from the mid 5th century BCE.〔 Since their discovery in ill-documented circumstances in the 1920s and their subsequent purchase by the British Museum,〔(British Museum Collection )〕 they have been celebrated as the very apogee of Celtic Art.
==Description==
The almost identical pair of flagons imitate the shape of contemporary Etruscan flagons and are made of a copper alloy that was skilfully beaten into shape from a single sheet of metal.〔 The base was cast to size and decorated with 120 pieces of red coral〔 and glass〔 and then attached using resin. Resin is also used to coat the inside, which makes the flagon watertight. The cast spout and lid is attached using pins into a cutout made in the copper sheet body. X-rays reveal that the resin and the pins were the only materials used by the artisans to assemble these artefacts; although there is some evidence of solder this is 20th century.
The flagons are richly decorated with glass and coral inlays and a range of animals on the lid. Time has faded the coral but the pieces would have been brightly coloured. The handle appears as the outline of a dog terminating at the bottom with a human face. The idea of a dog for a handle is thought to come from Greek or Etruscan culture; a dog is repeated twice on the lid, whereas the spout ornamented by a duck appears to be a wholly Celtic creation.〔 The eyes of the duck and the dogs have been finished by using a complex drill bit and they were drilled by the same person. Both vessels measure just over 40 cm in height. The drinking vessels were found with a pair of bronze ''stamnoi'' that date from the same period and were probably made in Italy.
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