A mortar made for Johan van der Beeck - image-1
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Lot 562 Dα

A mortar made for Johan van der Beeck

Auction 1152 - overview Cologne
29.05.2020, 11:00 - Highly Important Mortars from the Schwarzach Collection II
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 2.375 € (incl. premium)
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A mortar made for Johan van der Beeck

Coppery gold bronze with dark brown patina. With one broad and one narrow horizontal band of decor, the lower one with two winged male and female grotesques supporting a medallion with a portrait of a man in profile and a frieze of stylised acanthus. With a band inscribed in capital letters around the rim: "IOHAN VAN DER BEECK ERT GOET BAVEN ALLE CREATVREN 1564". Patina reapplied. H 16.9, D 16.7 cm. Weight c. 6.1 kg.
Netherlands, Utrecht or Deventer, 1564.

Literature

A mortar with the same decorative frieze with winged grotesques and portraits in profile can be seen on a mortar signed by Jan Tolhuys from Utrecht, illus. in: Koning, Nederlandse vijzels, Weert 1989, p. 87, illus. 118.