Squat bronze mortar with bronze pestle

Made:: 1631-1670

Squat bronze mortar with bronze pestle, mortar has 2 moulded daisy motifs and 4 moulded pineapple (?) motifs, probably Iberian, 1631 to 1670

Details

Category:: Pharmacy-ware

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A604576

Materials:: bronze

Measurements:: pestle: length 105 mm
pestle, max: diameter 35 mm
mortar: height 71 mm
rim: diameter 109 mm
base: diameter 81 mm

type:: mortars and pestles

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