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Mortar
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Short, squat-shaped, bronze mortar with a flared mouth. Four buttress columns alternating between four shields. The shields are coats of arms which are divided into three sections, a crown sits atop each shield and two castles above a running animal. The exterior surface between the neck and the foot has a sandpaper-like quality.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineMortar. ca 16th century. National Museum of American History, Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. CC0.
