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636 - A Dutch bronze mortar from 1601
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A Dutch bronze mortar from 1601 Golden-brown cast bronze with natural patina. With two bands of acanthus-leaf decoration and delicate arabesques. Around the rim, a banderole in capitals: “LAFE GODT VAN ALLE Ao 1601”. Two zoomorphic handles. Casting- or use-related horizontal crack in the lower part of the body; minor nicks to the rim. Height 15 cm, diameter 16.8 cm. Deventer, attributed to Hendrick Wegewart the Younger, 1601. Literature Cf. Koning, Nederlandse vijzels, Weert, 1989, p. 53. See also a mortar with the same decoration, dated 1629 and attributed to Henrik ter Horst, illustrated in the catalogue Kräuter, Mörser, Pillendreher, Die Sammlung Jena zu Gast im Hause Monheim, Aachen, 2018, pp. 108–109.
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