Bronze Mortar with Inscription, Spain, 1846

Mortar with inscriptions. Bronze. Spain, 1823. Con maza. Mortar made of bronze with an enlarged mouth and a cone shaped body developed without discontinuity and with a decreasing diameter to the base; It has two handles or "pieces" towards the smooth decorative moldings that it has on the upper part. The piece presents, almost on the edge, an inscription (I AM FROM D GREGORIO OCANA ANO DE 1823) in capital letters and a date in roman with spaces between them; and the text (the other way around) “Mazon fecci”; both flanked by a simple molding above and another below. This large-sized mortar is of the type that is usually known as "hospital" because it is usually used for medicines in environments with many patients or in important apothecaries. Typologically, it follows the usual line in these examples of the Spanish school during the 19th century: smooth, with moldings and, as a general rule, without those ribs (or derivatives thereof) that used to appear in the previous ones. Compare, for example, with the large pharmacy mortar in the Municipal Museum-Archive of Calella (with inscription, ribs and human heads as handles), a large pestle...

Mortar with hand. Bronze. XVII century. Mortar with a circular base, cylindrical body and slightly outwardly flared mouth, decorated with a series of smooth horizontal moldings arranged both in the lower and upper areas and with simple vertical elements (which still maintain slight balustraded shapes) derived from of the ribs that these specimens used to have in the medieval Spanish...

Flemish mortar. Bronze. XVII century. Features brand. Mortar with a circular base with a mouth that extends outward from the two upper stripes and a body with slight entasis and a ...

Mortar and pestle. Bronze. 19th century. Mortar with a flared mouth and relief decoration on the exterior based on balustraded elements (reminiscent of the ribs that these objects ...

Pair of bronze mortar decorated with a mascaron and their pestle, early 20th century. Measures: Height mortar 4 inches Height pestle 7 inches.   

An extraordinary very rare Holy Sabbat oil lamp with the Hebrew language inscriptions which means “Holy Sabbat”. Made out of bronze and has an untouched patina. Those kind of Oil Lam...

Spanish - Moorish Gothic bronze mortar and with ribs, most likely from Andalusia. Of conical shape, resting on a circular base, the exterior decorated with a series of wing-shaped pr...

Antique embroidery with Hebrew inscriptions Continental, late 19th century Measures: Height 91cm, width 87cm The wall hanging is crafted from...