Kamares Ware - Two

 Kamares ware Two 

This is Minoan Kamares Ware.

We know there was a tin trade route exporting ceramics and wine from the Mediterranean up to Britain and British tin and other items vice versa. 

While to my knowledge no Kamares ware has been found in Britain I wonder seeing these spirals if there were metal versions of this that reached Britain or Central Europe and influenced later Celtic art?

Kamares Ware

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KAMARES WARE

While Minoan Ceramics tend to be treated as being not quite "greek" they are just as "hellenic" as Cycladic or Helladic ceramics. They share the same characteristics of balanced functional forms and geometric decoration. 

But you say its got spirals!

Yes but those spirals are the ancestors of the meander patterns of later art and note the geometry and symmetry! So Hellenic!