Mortar with wings and dancing figures

PART OF:: Nineteen antique bronze mortars and five pestles

Bronze mortar with six projecting wings separating six fgures

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Bronze mortar with six projecting wings separating six fgures
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Bronze mortar with six projecting wings separating six figures of dancers. It shows moorish influences and is possibly Spanish, 13.6cms diameter, 9 cms high.

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Category:: Experimental Chemistry

Object Number:: 1919-506/3

type:: mortar

credit:: Newlands, M.A.

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Mortar with wings and dancing figures

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