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Lot 643 Dα

A mortar with a hunting dog relief

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 1.500 € - 2.000 €
Result: 1.875 € (incl. premium)
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A mortar with a hunting dog relief

Cast bronze with shimmering brown patina. Decorated with garlands of foliage suspended from two large flowerheads and a frieze of six dogs running towards the right. With two slender C-shaped handles. A filigree horizontal crack around the base. H 11.8, D 13.2 cm, weight c. 2.4 kg.
Northern Italy, in the manner of the Alberghetti Foundry, 16th C.

Literature

For more on the hunting motifs on the Alberghetti mortars see Motture, Bells and Mortars. Catalogue of the Italian Bronzes in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2001, no. 23 ff.