Mug shaped terracotta mortar and pestle with bi-conical finial

Made:: 1201-1900

Mug shaped terracotta mortar and pestle with bi-conical finial, decorated with incised circles and lines, in pinkish terracotta, unglazed, South American, 1201-1900

Details

Category:: Pharmacy-ware

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A121812

Materials:: terracotta

Measurements:: mortar: height 80 mm
mortar, base: diameter 104 mm
mortar, rim: diameter 81 mm
pestle: length 130 mm
pestle: diameter 74 mm

type:: mortars and pestles

credit:: Hamonic Collection

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