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Lot 635 D α

A mortar with a hunting dog relief

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 10:00 - Highly Important Mortars from the Schwarzach Collection III
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
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A mortar with a hunting dog relief

Cast bronze with shimmering brown patina. Decorated with garlands of foliage suspended from two large flowerheads and a frieze of six dogs running towards the right. With two slender C-shaped handles. Minor dents around the rim, the base slightly rounded due to use, a horizontal crack running almost entirely around the body. H 11.8, D 13.2 cm, weight c. 2.4 kg.
Northern Italy, in the manner of the Alberghetti Foundry, 16th C.

Literature

For more on the hunting motifs on the Alberghetti mortars see Motture, Bells and Mortars. Catalogue of the Italian Bronzes in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2001, no. 23 ff.