Miscellaneous >> 18TH C LIGNUM VITAE MORTAR & PESTLE
An 18th Century Lignum Vitae Pestle and Mortar. The pestle with a rounded and ringed top, above the shaped and waisted handle, spreading into a ringed collar, and thence the grinding body, tapering outward and downward to the rounded bottom. The mortar with an outward rolled rim, above the cylindrical body, decorated with a raised and line edged banding. The body curving into a socle, and thence the ogee profile circular plinth base. Date circa 1770. Height 8 inches, 20cm. Diameter 6 inches, 15cm. Of mortar.Ref: 21945
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