A highly important Hachmann mortar - image-1
A highly important Hachmann mortar - image-2
A highly important Hachmann mortar - image-3
A highly important Hachmann mortar - image-4
A highly important Hachmann mortar - image-1A highly important Hachmann mortar - image-2A highly important Hachmann mortar - image-3A highly important Hachmann mortar - image-4

Lot 1036 Dα

A highly important Hachmann mortar

Auction 1131 - overview Cologne
17.05.2019, 17:00 - Highly Important Mortars from the Schwarzach Collection
Estimate: 20.000 € - 30.000 €
Result: 49.600 € (incl. premium)
Artist Alert
Print page
Watchlist

A highly important Hachmann mortar

Golden brown cast bronze with dark brown patina. Conical form of octagonal section with waisted base. The outer surface divided horizontally, a banderole with an inscription in Gothic minuscule below the rim "godt hefft ghevucht das myr ghenught" and around the base "anno domini m vc l vii". Unusual handles formed as griffon's heads holding three lobed rings. H 15.1, D 15.7 cm. Weight 4.9 kg. Including a corresponding key shaped pestle.
Cleves, Hachmann foundry, attributed to Albert Hachmann, 1547.

Among other things, Albert Hachmann was cannon caster for William V, called William the Rich, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berge (1516 Düsseldorf 1592).

Provenance

Former A.J.G. Vester collection.

Literature

A further octagonal example with lion's head handles, also attributed to Albert Hachmann, in the Rijksmuseum (inv. no. BK-NM-8301-A).