Mortar with inscription: GERRIT TONISSEN HEFT MI LAUNCH Ao 1568, Willem Wegewart (I) (attributed to), 1568 Canvas Print

Mortar with inscription: GERRIT TONISSEN HEFT MI LAUNCH Ao 1568, Willem Wegewart (I) (attributed to), 1568 Canvas Print

The object is cast in one whole. The round mortar widens upwards, has a high protruding profiled edge and a flared profiled foot. On the edge in Latin majuskels the inscription GERRIT TONISSEN HEFT MI GIETEN Ao 1568 without punctuation. The upper frieze has five times the motif of a round shield between a winged male and female tenant whose tails decorated with a nodus turn into stemmed flowers, among other things. At the front, the round shield has been replaced by a coat of arms with the monogram EV. At the bottom, the frieze is closed by an injured pearl and cord edge. The lower frieze has a vase decorated with seven grunts on raised base, which extends into a bowl, and with a lid with flower-shaped bud. Bud and shell are held by two bearded tenant, whose lower bodies turn into tendrils, which include pomegranate, flower and other plant motifs. The tendril work ends in dolphin or rams heads, the latter of which are used to the right twice and once to the left. The two square twisted ears are positioned in such a way that the vase with the tenant and the rams heads are as visible as possible.

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