Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

AN ENGLISH BRONZE MORTAR

ATTRIBUTED TO MILES GRAYE, COLCHESTER, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

with a pair of lug handles, with a scratched 'W' mark, a German bronze mortar, 18th century, probably Nuremberg, with lozenge and banded decoration, and a small Dutch bronze mortar, 18th century (3)

11.2cm high, 15.6cm wide (the English mortar)

Provenance

The Howard Collection of Oak and Works of Art.

Literature

See Michael Finlay, 'English Decorated Bronze Mortars and their Makers' p.36 fig.38 for a similarly shaped mortar with a scratched 'W'.