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POSSIBLY NETHERLANDISH, CIRCA 1700
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TWO BRONZE MORTARS
One of waisted form with ball and ring handles, cast with a rooster standing on a rose clasp to one side, a pheasant on a floral clasp to the other side, and interspersed with flower heads, German, possibly Netherlandish, circa 1700; together with another of waisted form on a spreading foot with laurel leaf wrapped handles, cast MARCO MACAFERI FECE on one side, LUCA E.F. MI NALI 1817 within a wreath on the other side, Italian, signed and dated 1817
13in. (33cm.) high one; 11½in. (29cm.) high the other
One of waisted form with ball and ring handles, cast with a rooster standing on a rose clasp to one side, a pheasant on a floral clasp to the other side, and interspersed with flower heads, German, possibly Netherlandish, circa 1700; together with another of waisted form on a spreading foot with laurel leaf wrapped handles, cast MARCO MACAFERI FECE on one side, LUCA E.F. MI NALI 1817 within a wreath on the other side, Italian, signed and dated 1817
13in. (33cm.) high one; 11½in. (29cm.) high the other