Lot Essay
Owen Evan-Thomas Domestic Utensils of Wood, illustrates a mortar of a similar shape, plate 26.
Details
A fruitwood bowl or mortar
of simple pole lathe turned form, Northern European, 18th century -- 6¼in. (15.8cm) diam; and an elm bowl, the rim and sides with reeded ornament, English, possibly 19th century
See Illustration. (2)
of simple pole lathe turned form, Northern European, 18th century -- 6¼in. (15.8cm) diam; and an elm bowl, the rim and sides with reeded ornament, English, possibly 19th century
See Illustration. (2)