POSSIBLY 15TH CENTURY

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A German bronze mortar and pestle
Possibly 15th Century
The waisted body with flaring moulded foot and rim, centred by a crest above two coats-of-arms, with the intertwined handles headed by hound masks, the pestle with ribbon-twist shaft, inscribed in white paint to the pestle and mortar R.B.K. 1954-25A/B
24 cm. high x 22.5 cm. wide x 18 cm. deep; the pestle 38 cm. long (2)

Provenance

E. Gutmann, Berlin.
F.B.E. Gutmann, Heemstede.
With J.W. Böhler, Munich, 1942.
With K. Haberstock, Berlin, 1942.
The Instituut Collectie Nederland (earlier the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit, no. NK3167, on loan to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1954).
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1960 until restituted to Gutmann's heirs in 2002.

Literature

Verslagen omtrent 's Rijks Verzamelingen van Geschiedenis en Kunst, LXXVI, The Hague 1954, p. 24, 25 (as South German, late 15th Century).
E. Meyer, Nürnberger Bronzen der Vor-Vischer-Zeit, in Eberhard Hansstaegl zum 75. Geburtstag, Munich 1961, p. 29, ill. no. 16 (as Nuremberg, late 15th Century).
E.G.G. Bos, Vijf eeuwen koper en brons (Facetten der verzameling 13), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1973, ill. no. 36 (as Nuremberg, 15th Century).
O. ter Kuile, Koper en Brons, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1986, p. 215, cat. no. 298, ill. (as Germany, Nuremberg, late 15th Century).

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Lot Essay

The coat-of-arms on the right has been identified as from the Von Steinwag family from Schwäbisch Hall (E. Meyer, Nürnberger Bronzen der Vor-Vischer-Zeit, in Eberhard Hansstaegl zum 75. Geburtstag, Munich 1961, p. 30, note 22, directing to Wappenbuch 1734, Bd. 5, nr. 255).

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