Mortar
The facture of this eight-sided mortar decorated with projecting vertical ribs, with a pair of square handles suggests a relatively late date, possibly from the eighteenth or nineteenth century. It could have been made in Morocco in Northern Africa, where a production of mortars in fifteenth-century Iberian style seems to have existed.
Artwork Details
- Title: Mortar
- Date: 18th or 19th century, after a 15th century model
- Culture: Spanish or Moroccan (?)
- Medium: Copper alloy, light olive-green to brown patina.
- Dimensions: H. 9.1 cm, diam. 9.3 cm (rim).
- Classification: Metalwork
- Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
- Object Number: 1975.1.1363
- Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection
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