Dated Dutch mortar with love saying.
Golden brown bronze casting with honey-coloured natural patina. Centered by a horizontal moulding, two acanthus bands, grotesque half figures around cornucopias and arabesque vines. Under the rim a broad slogan in capitals: "AMOR VINCIT OMNIA ANNO 1606". Two zoomorphic handles. H 13,5, D 14 cm, weight ca. 3,2 kg.
Deventer, Hendrick Wegewart jr., attributed, 1606.
Literature
Cf. Koning, Nederlandse vijzels, Weert 1989, p. 51.
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