Live Auction 3001The Decorative Arts Sale
A GERMAN BRONZE MORTAR
Lot 420

A GERMAN BRONZE MORTAR

CIRCA 1621, PROBABLY KREFELD

Closed4 April 2012

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EUR 3,000

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A GERMAN BRONZE MORTAR
CIRCA 1621, PROBABLY KREFELD
The waisted body cast with a double frieze of palmettes and issuing dolphin handles beneath inscription band ERT * GODT * BOVEN * AL * Ao * 1621 +
13.5 cm. high x 14 cm. diam.

Specialist note

Dr. Wittop Koning attributes a group of mortars made for persons in Krefeld to the German town of Krefeld near Venlo. All of these mortars have the same ornament. A mortar from the same workshop as the present lot is illustrated in Dr.D.A. Wittop Koning, Nederlandse Vijzels, Weert, 1989, p. 105, no. 153.