Lot Essay
Giorgio Lise and Bruno Bearzi, Antichi Mortai de Farmacia, Silvana Editoriale, Milano 1975. Comparison can be made with a mortar illustrated plate VII.
16TH/17TH CENTURY
Details
Four Spanish bronze mortars
16th/17th century
Each of globular form with bands of vertical projecting buttresses
The largest -- 3½in. (8.9cm.) diameter, 4½in. (11.5cm.) high, the smallest -- 2 1/8in. (5.4cm.) diameter
two other Iberian bronze mortars, of waisted outline; and a Qajar brass torchstand, 19th century -- 11in. (29.8cm.) high; and the base of another similar torchstand -- 7in. (19cm.) high (8)
16th/17th century
Each of globular form with bands of vertical projecting buttresses
The largest -- 3½in. (8.9cm.) diameter, 4½in. (11.5cm.) high, the smallest -- 2 1/8in. (5.4cm.) diameter
two other Iberian bronze mortars, of waisted outline; and a Qajar brass torchstand, 19th century -- 11in. (29.8cm.) high; and the base of another similar torchstand -- 7in. (19cm.) high (8)
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