Live Auction 2855The Decorative Arts Sale
A LARGE DUTCH BRONZE MORTAR
Lot 249

A LARGE DUTCH BRONZE MORTAR

ALEWIJN CROMBOSCH, AMSTERDAM, CIRCA 1735

Closed22 September 2010

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A LARGE DUTCH BRONZE MORTAR
ALEWIJN CROMBOSCH, AMSTERDAM, CIRCA 1735
The flaring rim inscribed CORNELIS HOOFT AGITANDO REMEDIA REDONUNTER APTICORA 1735, above a frieze repeatedly casted with a stag hunt and scrolling acanthus above a frieze decorated with acnathus leafs alternating with reversed volutes
34 cm. high x 40.5 cm. diam.

Specialist note

The Latin inscription Agitando remedia redonunter apticora can be translated as Door mij te hanteren worden de medicijnen geschikter voor het gebruik (by using me the medicin will be more valuable for use).

Alewijn Crombosch is recorded working at the St. Anthoni Breestraat in Amsterdam circa 1735-1756.
A related mortar with almost identical frieze decoration is illustrated in Wittop I, p.37, ill. 15.