A lead/bronze mortar, English, 17th century

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A lead/bronze mortar, English, 17th century
the body cast with a stags head in a circlet or shoe buckle twice, on a conical foot -- 4.3/8in. (11.1cm.) diameter, 3in. (9cm.) high

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Peter Hornsby, English Decorated Mortars, Collector's Guide, January 1990. The stags head is reference to the hart in the field or Christ.

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