Lot Essay
The biblical inscription SI DEUS PRONOBIS QUIS CONTRA NOS (If God be for us, who can be against us?) is a quotation from Romans 8:31.
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DATED 1724
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A LARGE DUTCH BRONZE MORTAR
DATED 1724
The everted rim above a ring turned waisted body inscribed SI DEUS PRO NOBIS QUIS CONTRA NOS Ao 1724 on a spreading moulded foot
32.5 cm high x 39.5 cm. diam.
DATED 1724
The everted rim above a ring turned waisted body inscribed SI DEUS PRO NOBIS QUIS CONTRA NOS Ao 1724 on a spreading moulded foot
32.5 cm high x 39.5 cm. diam.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the collection of F.J. Rienks, Enkhuizen, by the owner in 1971. Thence by descent.
Literature
Dr. D.A. Wittop Koning, Nederlandse Vijzels (Deventer 1953), p. 80, cat. nr. 39.
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