ITALIAN BRONZE TWIN HANDLED MORTAR

ITALIAN BRONZE TWIN HANDLED MORTAR, 17th century, with flared rim, above a multi-knopped exterior, the handles cast as zoomorphic heads, 9.5cm high, 15.5cm diameter; and a Continental alloy mortar, 18th century, 9.5cm high, 13cm diameter Cf Christie's South Kensington, 'Oak, Country Furniture, Folk Art, Works of Art and Sculpture, including the Robert Spalding Collection of Mortars', 12th November 2003, lots 560 and 589 for examples with very similar handles to those in the first mortar above