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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.
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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
Accession Number: 1975.1.1363
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