£80
A small Charles I bronze-alloy mortar, attributed to the X foundry, Suffolk, circa 1680
The flared body cast twice with a fleur-de-lys, crowned harp, crowned thistle and flowering stem, rim diameter 12.8cm, height
Literature: See Michael Finlay, English Decorated Bronze Mortars (2010), p. 134, pl. 265, for a virtually identical mortar. The author refers to the illustrated example as brassy appearance, which is again comparable to this Lot
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