Large Antique Mortar and Pestle, English Ceramic, Apothecary, Cookery, Victorian

This is a small antique mortar and pestle duo. An English, ceramic and beech cooking or apothecary aid, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1890. Pleasingly substantial with classic kitchen appeal Displaying a desirable aged patina with light signs of use Naturally finished ceramic with crisp white hues and chamfered edges Quality turned beech handle to pestle shows fine grain interest Larger bowl engraved with maker's mark for S. Maw, Son & Thompson of London This is a charming antique mortar and pestle duo with a neatly stacking shape and delightfully tactile pestle. As useful today as they were over 100 years ago, this duo will also make fine display items upon a kitchen work top...

This is an antique mortar and pestle. An English, brass apothecary instrument, dating to the Victorian period, circa 1850. Appealing Victorian mortar...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle #27 is raku-fired, hand built and hand sculptured. This piece is made of three separate pieces of green rust patinaed wood fired stoneware. "In his process, Hirsch is a reducer, endlessly honing and refining his forms to their simplest and most powerful presence. It is the same “less is more” aesthetic evidenced by the work of Noguchi, Brancusi, and Giacometti, artists he holds in greatest esteem. His content is principally the vocabulary of form, color, and surface, subtly referencing utility while defying overt narration and cultural specificity. A mortar and pestle like this one, for example, might be discernible in a piece, but presented with such economy that it becomes only important as a stand-in for larger issues; their anima/animus relationship or as a record of human use and wear over considerable time. For Hirsch, the particular only exists for the purpose of making the universal palpable. His is a point of view similar...

Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's Mortar and Glass Pestle Sculpture #4 was assembled in 2020. It's wheel thrown and hand built clay, gold enamel paint, black and ...