Mortar

Unknown

19th century, after a 16th century Italian model · Copper alloy, dark patina. · Robert Lehman Collection

This mortar with a heavily worn, repeating design around the middle is probably one of the “Four Assorted Italian Bronze and Brass Motars [sic]” that Duveen Brothers removed from the apartment of Mrs. Albert E. Goodhart, Robert Lehman’s aunt, after her death in 1952. It is a nineteenth-century aftercast after an old, worn original.

Artist

Unknown

Date

19th century, after a 16th century Italian model

Medium

Copper alloy, dark patina.

Culture

Italian (?)

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975