A Netherlandish leaded bronze twin handled mortar, Deventer 1601

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A Netherlandish leaded bronze twin handled mortar, Deventer 1601
the rim cast with the inscription and date LOF GODT VANAL AO 1601, the waist with a wide band of adorsed S scrolls issuing stiff leaves below a narrow band of leafy tendrils, the handles modelled as stylised dolphins below a spreading and tapering foot -- 5½in. (14cm) diam, 5in. (12.7cm) high; and an associated pestle
See Illustration.

拍品专文

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Onno ter Kuile, Koper & Brons, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1986. A similar bronze dated 1622 illustrated page 209, fig.291.