Dutch mortar from 1609
Golden brown bronze casting with chocolate brown patina. A narrow and a broad vegetal arabesque band with acanthus leaves and filigree tendrils around the middle of the wall. Above a banner in Latin capitals: "LOF GODT VAN AL Ao 1609". Two dolphin handles. In places uncleanly cast (banner and around the handles), few notches on the rim. H 13,1, D 14 cm, weight approx. 3,1 kg. Matching bronze pestle with nodus added, l 24.5 cm.
Deventer, Hendrick Wegewart Jr., attributed, 1609.
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