Vessel with hunting scenes and the inscription ANTONI WILKES ME FECIT ENCHVSAE ANNO 1661

The cast round mortar widens towards the top, has a high overhanging rim and a profiled foot, which is positioned higher than the bottom of the object. On the rim, in Latin capitals, is the inscription ANTONI WILKES ME FECIT ENCHVSAE ANNO 1661 with interpuncts consisting of a rosette built from seven dots (seven times). The wall is decorated with two friezes. On the upper one, the motif of a Renaissance vase between two symmetrically placed angels with a palm branch, sitting on scrollwork in which a cornucopia is included, and whose second volute ends in a mask, is repeated more than twice. The partially repeated scene on the lower frieze is borrowed from hunting: a rider and his footman are on a falcon hunt, a man holds a piece of meat (?) up to a lion, a rider hunts a stag with three dogs, which is also approached by a footman with a lance, while a man blows a horn.