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PROBABLY 15TH CENTURY
Details
A large Spanish bronze mortar
Probably 15th century
The rim cast with the inscription ME A FET FER EN CALAF LO ANY..... + YAVME VIDAL APOTHECARI, above twin handles cast as putto heads, the body cast with eight caryatid buttresses, large old crack circumnavigating body
12 1/8in. (30.8cm.) diameter; 8¼in. (21cm.) high
Probably 15th century
The rim cast with the inscription ME A FET FER EN CALAF LO ANY..... + YAVME VIDAL APOTHECARI, above twin handles cast as putto heads, the body cast with eight caryatid buttresses, large old crack circumnavigating body
12 1/8in. (30.8cm.) diameter; 8¼in. (21cm.) high
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