Among the Celtic peoples of temperate Europe it was applied to La Tène bronze safety-pins and torcs as well as to prestige objects such as bronze wine flagons.

The distribution of the balls is similar to that of mace-heads, which were both weapons and prestige objects used in ceremonial situations.

Pottery was also "used as a prestige object to display success or power".

"And they were probably enjoyed at home as status symbols or prestige objects rather than as ceremonial items used in cult rituals."

But for the last 20 years, prehistorians and archeologists have suggested that early Europeans may have acquired these things as prestige objects.

The enhanced status of cooking also made the kitchen a prestige object for showing off one's wealth or cooking professionalism.

They have been hunted; they have been collected illegally and then transported in conditions where they suffocated, died of thirst or withered away - prestige objects which never made it to their destination.

As a result, it is considered immoral to use prestige objects to purchase goods from a lower sphere.

Like Mr. Meier's Charles Street tower, each of Mr. Calatrava's apartments is conceived as a self-contained urban refuge, a $30,000,000 prestige object for the global elites.

There was a great demand for prestige objects by the elite.