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Mortar
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This bronze mortar has a flared rim, beaker-shaped body with six vertical gothic style ribs and a twisted applied handle. A hand written note placed inside mortar reads, "Probably Spanish/ 16th c./ or french". Urdang catalogued this mortar as Germanic, early 15th century.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineMortar. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
