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Lot 584 Dα

A magnificent Netherlandish mortar with a romantic inscription

Auction 1152 - overview Cologne
29.05.2020, 11:00 - Highly Important Mortars from the Schwarzach Collection II
Estimate: 4.000 € - 6.000 €
Result: 4.500 € (incl. premium)

A magnificent Netherlandish mortar with a romantic inscription

Cast bronze with fine golden brown patina. Decorated with two horizontal bands of ornament: The upper band with cherub's heads surrounded by delicate arabesques, the lower with three jumping deer and four jumping dogs amid tendrils. The rim with a romantic inscription in capital letters using an erroneous word order: "AMOR VINCIT OMNIA ANNO DOMINI 1667". H 19, D 23.3 cm. Weight c. 14.5 kg.
Deventer, follower of Henrick ter Horst, attributed to Gerrit Schimmel, 1667.

Literature

Cf. Dubbe, Die Mörsersammlung Ernst Genz, Maxhöhe 1993, no. 128.