Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: Motture Bells & Mortars V&A, 2001. No.s 1 and 70. Middeldorf Fifty Mortars, Florence, 1981. No.10.
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PROBABLY CENTRAL ITALIAN, 15TH CENTURY
Details
An Italian bronze mortar
Probably central Italian, 15th century
The body with five trefoil-capped vertical ribs and a single part-writhen handle with plain ring
5 7/8in. (14.9cm.) diameter, 4in. (11.4cm.) high
Probably central Italian, 15th century
The body with five trefoil-capped vertical ribs and a single part-writhen handle with plain ring
5 7/8in. (14.9cm.) diameter, 4in. (11.4cm.) high
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