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Lot 564 Dα

A Dutch mortar made for Secretarius Hugo Lenten

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 10:00 - Highly Important Mortars from the Schwarzach Collection III
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 4.000 € (incl. premium)
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A Dutch mortar made for Secretarius Hugo Lenten

Golden brown cast bronze with brown natural patina (slightly mottled in some areas). Of tapering form with a thick, tiered base. The centre decorated with a moulding flanked above and below by bands of acanthus tendrils, grotesque demi-figures, vases of flowers and cornucopias. With a wide banderole below the rim inscribed in Latin capital letters: “HVGO LENTEN R M DANIAE SECRETARIVS”. H 17, D 17.1 cm, weight c. 7.9 kg.
Attributed to the Netherlands, Enkhuizen, early 17th C.

Literature

Cf. Koning, Nederlandse vijzels, Weert 1989, p. 62 f.