A LARGE ELIZABETHAN BRONZE MORTAR

A LARGE ELIZABETHAN BRONZE MORTAR

ATTRIBUTED TO HENRY OLDFIELD II, NOTTINGHAM, LATE 16TH CENTURY

with an everted rim with the initials 'R' and 'H' in floriated Lombardic script of Rufford type, above four lug handles, two with rings and two cabled, flanked by four Gothic style buttress mouldings

19.5cm high, 27.8cm diameter

Provenance

The Collection of Michael Finlay.

Upper Slaughter Manor, The Collection of Micheál and Elizabeth Feller.

Catalogue Note

See Michael Finlay, 'English Decorated Bronze Mortars and their Makers', p.93, pl.168 for the present lot and a discussion of this mortar. The author also speculates that this mortar could also be by Richard Holdfield.