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Lot 597 D α

A rare and magnificent Amsterdam Baroque mortar

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 9.000 € - 10.000 €
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A rare and magnificent Amsterdam Baroque mortar

Thickly cast golden brown bronze with silvery-gold patina. Tapering mortar with a moulded base. Decorated with two bands of ornament depicting putti making music amid arabesques and an acanthus frieze. With a wide banderole below the rim inscribed with the caster's name and the date in Latin capital letters: "CLAES NOORDEN ET IAN ALBERT DE GRAVE ME FECERUNT AMSTELODAME A° 1708". Minor dents to the rim. H 22.8, D 29.5 cm, weight c. 29 kg.
Claas Noorden and Jan Albert de Grave, 1708.

Provenance

Collection of Dr. Wiegert, Adler-Apotheke Gronau.

Literature

Cf. Koning, Nederlandse vijzels, Weert 1989, p. 38, 41, illus. 19.