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PROBABLY NETHERLANDISH, CIRCA 1565
Details
A French bronze mortar and pestle
Probably Netherlandish, circa 1565
The flaring rim and tapering body with angular ears, cast with a frieze depicting satyrs and grotesques within arabesques, above a frieze cast with rams masks issuing garlands, the rim with inscription DIEU POUR GUYDON OOM 1565
17cm. high and 17cm. diam.
See illustration
Probably Netherlandish, circa 1565
The flaring rim and tapering body with angular ears, cast with a frieze depicting satyrs and grotesques within arabesques, above a frieze cast with rams masks issuing garlands, the rim with inscription DIEU POUR GUYDON OOM 1565
17cm. high and 17cm. diam.
See illustration
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