Meditate with bronze valiant of 1000-900 BC. J.-C

The fire that broods

A magnificent batch of old dishes. Some still carrying their original gilding. Others, corroded, have an emerald green shade characteristic of bronze, also testifying to the passage of centuries. Because this fascinating collection is almost three thousand years old, and it took the insight of a teacher from the Village d’Évans (Jura), this July 4, 1998, to understand what a shoveler was bringing to light, during earthworks at the bottom of a garden.

Patiently, he harvested the first parts to protect them while waiting for the arrival of archaeologists in the region quickly warned. Ultimately ,, Nearly forty-nine objects will be exhumed. There are cuts and cups there. But also bottles, colanders, a biconic vase, a cauldron with cruciform ties and a few other pitches. Domestic relics of the family life of our distant ancestors? Or dishes dedicated to cults and ritual libations?

In any case, the beauty of their achievement testifies to a high degree of control of the art of fire among the craftsmen who produced them. Because the alloy of tin and copper is a new know-how that will change the relationship to the world of populations of the time. To eat and to hit. To celebrate life and accompany the dead. To transform the world and to wage war. Like a mirror from the bottom of the times, this collection questions us about what we also accumulate to fill our shortcomings, cross our fears, leave a trace. And believe in life after us.