A French pillar mortar with female busts - image-1

Lot 669 Dα

A French pillar mortar with female busts

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 800 € - 1.000 €

A French pillar mortar with female busts

Slightly rough textured golden brown cast bronze with shimmering patina. Decorated with figural pilasters and a bust of a young woman in relief (possibly St. Catherine). The base slightly unevenly cast. H 10, D 15 cm, weight c. 2.4 kg.
16th C.

Provenance

Dutch private collection.

Literature

A similarly decorated mortar formerly housed in the Bohnewald collection (sold by Lempertz Cologne, 28th March 1969, illus. 9) illustrated in Launert, Der Mörser, Munich 1990, p. 186, illus. 199.