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Lot 576 Dα

A rare Baroque mortar made for Charles Lamirant

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
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A rare Baroque mortar made for Charles Lamirant

Golden brown, sharply cast bronze with slightly mottled patina (possibly with remnants of polychromy). Tapering mortar on a stepped moulded base. Decorated with several bands of moulding and fleur de lys and sage leaf reliefs surrounding a central "house mark" with the initials "C C L" above the foundry mark "ROUSSEL BENIGNE" surrounding a bell. Inscribed below the rim in Latin capital letters: "IE SVIS A CHARLES LAMIRANT". With minor dents around the edge. H 14, D 15 cm, weight c. 2.9 kg.
Attributed to France or Alsace, 1653.

Literature

Cf. cat. Kräuter, Mörser, Pillendreher, Die Sammlung Jena zu Gast im Hause Monheim, Aachen 2018, p. 133, cat. no. 38.