Barock - Mörser

Cast bronze, slightly conical body with handles set to the sides on a flared stand, the two-part central field with a surrounding relief band with flowers, fruit and birds, above strong profile rings with inscription "I - C - OSTENDARP ANNA - M - I - PECK 1700" in Latin majuscules, handle in stylized dolphin form with rolled ends and applied acanthus leaves, h 14.2 cm, Ø 15.3 cm, weight 4,470 gr, Westphalia 1700, very good condition with fine patina, minor signs of wear 0403 Since the 16th century, probably originating from the bell-founding workshop of Albert and Willem Hachmann in Kleve in the Lower Rhine (ca. 1520 - 1610) in northern Germany, a typical mortar shape with a mostly two-part central field and relief bands, here the names of married couples are often found, a piece made in Münster in 1649 for the wedding of Severin Uding and Clara Kordinck, formally comparable but significantly larger and more elaborate with similar relief bands, is in the Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History Münster, the name Ostendarp (Ostendorp, Ostendorf) is often found in Münsterland or Westphalia. Westphalia References: Edmund Launert 1990, Der Mörser, page 156 no. 149 and Siegfried Genz 1993, Sammlung Genz, page 300ff, nos. 153 - 168 Prov.: private property East Westphalia