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Pharmacy mortar. Bronze. Carlos Fenollera, Valencia, Spain, 1790. Bibliography: VVAA "The Faculty of Medicine of Valencia". University of Valencia, publication services. P. 128-129. Mortar made in bronze with a mouth exvased towards the outside and a frustoconical body that has a forehead with reliefs of female grotesques (bust of a lady and architectural lower part) united by laurel garlands and two lion protomes on the sides that would serve as handles; In this area is the word Ano (under one of the lions) and the number 1790 (under the other head) relative to the date of manufacture. Flanking this decoration are two inscriptions in capital letters enhanced with smooth moldings (“From the public laboratory of chemistry of the Ylle University of Vaia” followed by a cross; Carlos Fenollera me f, with stars between some words). It is known of a Carlos Fenollera, a master bell ringer, who succeeded Josef Pérez in 1796 as a machinist at the University of Valencia, working for the Professors of Mechanics and Astronomy, initially repairing machines and instruments, their maintenance, etc. Likewise, there is knowledge of the proposal for a laboratory (leading in its time) located in the Colegio de Santo Tomás de Villanueva, for which this piece was made, which, moreover, supposes, according to experts, one of the few elements that have come down to us from this laboratory at the University of Valencia, responsible for which would be Thomas Villanova, who directly hired a series of Valencian teachers (among whom a bell ringer named Carlos Fenollera is mentioned). Weight: 60 kg.
· Size: 43x40x25 cms.
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Ref.: ZF1033
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Pharmacy mortar. Bronze. Spain, 1743. Pharmacy mortar made in bronze with mouth exvased to the outside from the last third of the piece with the upper part straight to the outside, and frustoconical body (developed in a slight decrease towards the base on the outside), decorated on the outside with a band between thin smooth moldings with balustraded shapes with great relief and two straight tubular handles inclined downwards. On the upper edge it has a band enhanced by smooth moldings in which a text can be read with words alternating with rhombuses with stars (Ave Maria Grcia Plena Dominvs Tecvm IHS); Under this decoration is a band of plant elements grouped in pairs. Between two of the balusters, there is also another inscription (this one owned) in capital letters with stars grouped between some of the letters: “soi de d / anto/ nio de / la peña / ano / 1743”. These balustraded forms were introduced in the Spanish school mortars during the Baroque, and are considered a logical evolution of the ribs that these pieces used to have in earlier dates. Compare this example with several from the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas in Madrid (CE06812 has simpler balusters and handles; CE02620 maintains the motif of ribs heir to the Middle Ages, in combination with high-relief female busts). As for the text it presents, it is common to find it in ecclesiastical settings (monasteries, convents, cathedrals, etc.), so it is possible to assume that the mortar belonged to a religious institution. However, being a common phrase of Catholic Christianity, its civil use cannot be rejected outright. Weight: 64kg
· Size: 43x40x25 cms.
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Ref.: ZF1044
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Mortar with inscriptions. Bronze. Spain, 1823. Mortar made of bronze with an exvased mouth and a troconical body developed without discontinuity and with a decrease in diameter up to the base; It has two handles or "pieces" towards the smooth decorative moldings on the top. The piece presents, almost on the edge, an inscription (I AM FROM D GREGORIO OCANA ANO DE 1823) in capital letters and date in Romans with spaces between them; and the text (reversed than the other) "Mazon fecci"; both flanked by a simple molding above and another below. This large mortar is of the type that is usually known as "hospital" because it is commonly used for medicines in environments with many patients or in important apothecaries. Typologically, it follows the usual line in these examples of the Spanish school during the 19th century: smooth, with moldings and, as a general rule, without those ribs (or derivatives thereof) that used to appear in the previous ones. Compare, for example, with the large pharmacy mortar in the Museo-Archivo Municipal de Calella (with inscription, ribs and human heads as handles), a large pestle in the Museo de la Farmacia Hispana at the Complutense University of Madrid, etc
· Size: 37x34,5x25 cms.
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Ref.: ZF1007
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Mortar with inscription. Bronze. Spain, 1846. Mortar made of bronze with an exvased mouth and a troconical body developed without discontinuity and with a decrease in diameter up to the base. The piece presents an inscription (“soi de don Gregorio goia ano 1846”) in capital letters with spaces between them and two areas with lines flanking the text in the upper and lower areas, referring to the owner of the mortar and the year it was manufactured. the same. Compare, for example, with the large pharmacy mortar in the Museo-Archivo Municipal de Calella (with inscription, ribs and human heads as handles), a large pestle in the Museo de la Farmacia Hispana at the Complutense University of Madrid, etc.
· Size: 25x25x30 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;BRONZE MORTARS
Ref.: Z5727
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Bronze “poison” mortar, 16th century. Mortar made of bronze in its color with figurative decoration on the front: two facing birds bite fruits from a basket on one side; on the other, two monkeys eat meat from another basket that also contains a pomegranate. This type of decoration is unusual in the mortars of the time, the so-called “ribs” being more frequent or the absence of it. These types of objects, despite being possible for domestic use, were more often used in pharmacies, serving to grind the compounds used in the manufacture of what were then considered medicines (hence the term "poison", since the difference between it and a curative compound was often the dose) Weight: 260 grams..
· Size: 9x9x5 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;BRONZE MORTARS
Ref.: Z6482
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Poison mortar with mace. Bronze. Century XVI. Small-sized mortar with a mace made of bronze, the former decorated with a band of vertical shapes that are more reminiscent of leaves than ribs, and the latter with a straight shaft widened at the end and a series of protruding moldings at the end and center of the piece. Weight: 306 grams.
· Size: 6,5x6,5x5 cms.
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Ref.: ZF0555
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Mortar. Carved stone. Century XVIII. Mortar made of a single piece of carved stone that has a circular base and four handles or worn projections carved towards the outside of its body, shaped like a cup. These types of pieces were created for use in pharmacies (which could be in a city, in a religious institution or in a hospital) or in a kitchen (of a large residence or, again, of a religious institution), not It being possible to further specify its purpose due to the lack of decorative elements and the usual pattern of the model to which this piece belongs, with a long tradition in Europe. Similar copies are preserved, for example, in the Hispanic Pharmacy Museum of the Complutense University of Madrid, the Pharmacy History Museum in Seville, the Pharmacy Museum in Krakow, etc.
· Size: 73x73x45 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;BRONZE MORTARS
Ref.: Z1057
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Bronze mortar with plant motifs and masks. 16th-17th centuries. Mortar with a cylindrical body with a mouth open towards the outside and a prominent lower molding that presents a decoration based on ribs with plant motifs interspersed with relief masks. These types of works were created for use in apothecaries or important houses. The rib motif is used in Gothic examples, and here it has been transformed to suit more classicist tastes, common in the Renaissance and Baroque.
· Size: 14,5x14,5x10 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;BRONZE MORTARS
Ref.: Z5164
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Poison mortar. Bronze. Century XVI. Mortar made of bronze with a circular base, mouth exvased towards the outside and cylindrical body decorated with a relief of birds, human figures and plant elements (basket with fruit from which the birds take). This is a relatively common composition in European examples of the Renaissance. This type of mortar is called "poison" because of its small size. Weight: 0.4kg.
· Size: 8,5x8,5x5 cms
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Ref.: ZF1095
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Mortar. Patinated bronze. XVII century. Patinated bronze mortar with a hollow mouth, tronococonical body and base enhanced with moldings decorated with facing balusters. Those embossed balusters reflect a clear influence of baroque models (heiress, in turn, of the medieval ribs). Compare this example with one kept in the Museo del Greco (Toledo, Spain), similar in shape and decoration. Weight; 4.9kg.
· Size: 16x16x11 cms,
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Ref.: ZF0636
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Mortar with hand Bronze. XVII century. Mortar with a circular base, cylindrical body and mouth slightly exvased towards the outside, decorated with a band of stars on the upper part and, on the front, alternating heraldic shields under an open crown (two panels with individual castles or towers and a lion or beast through below) with vertical balustraded elements derived from the ribs of medieval mortars.
· Size: 13x13x8,5 cms.
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Ref.: ZF0967
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Bronze mortar from the 17th century, decorated with ribs in the form of banded pilasters and, on the planes, cartouches with the representation of the archangel Saint Michael in relief.
· Size: 7x7x12 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;BRONZE MORTARS
Ref.: Z4723
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Mortar with hand Bronze. Spain, 17th century. Bronze mortar with an exvased mouth and a frustoconical body decorated on the outside with some balustraded reliefs derived from the traditional ribs, typical of these pieces in the Spanish school since the Gothic period. The hand, tubular, has a decoration of discs arranged towards the center and towards the end, and a flat expansion at the beginning.
· Size: 12x12x7 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;BRONZE MORTARS
Ref.: ZE336
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Mortar with ribs. Bronze. XVII century. Bronze mortar from the Baroque period, with an inverted bell-shaped structure with a slightly open base and a mouth that is also exvased, but to a greater extent than the base. It is decorated with a composition that would derive from the Gothic ribs, leaving some vertical bars reminiscent of columns and alternate with relief masks. It was probably used in an apothecary to grind the ingredients of the medicines of the time or in some important house, given its decoration.
· Size: 13x13x9,5 cms.
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MISCELLANEOUS;BRONZE MORTARS
Ref.: Z5715
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Mortar with mace Bronze. XVII century. Bronze mortar with a cylindrical body that shows the hollowed-out mouth (with two fine lines on the inside), the base with a concave molding and the smooth front decorated with elements in relief reminiscent of masks; The mace, also made of bronze, has a straight body widened towards the end and decorated with smooth moldings towards the middle and at the beginning end. Weight: 833 grams. .
· Size: 9,5x9,5x6,5 cms.
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Ref.: ZF0557
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Mortar with hand Bronze. Spain, 17th century. Bronze mortar with an exvasive mouth, base raised outward and cylindrical body decorated on the outside with some reliefs alternating heads (possibly Medusa) and balustraded shapes derived from the usual ribs, typical of this type of piece within the Spanish school since that time. gothic. The hand, cylindrical in shape, is decorated with discs of different diameters and smooth widths, arranged towards the center and towards the end, and a flat widening at the beginning.
· Size: 16x16x10.5 Long mano 20 cms
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Ref.: ZF1012
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Mortar with hand Bronze. XVII century. Mortar with a circular base, cylindrical body and mouth slightly exvasive towards the outside, decorated with a series of smooth horizontal moldings arranged both in the lower and upper areas and with some simple vertical elements (which still maintain light balustraded shapes) derived from of the ribs that these specimens used to have in the medieval Spanish school.
· Size: 13x13x8,5 cms
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Ref.: ZF0966
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Mortar with hand Bronze. Twentieth century. Cylindrical open-rimmed mortar with two handles, a banded decoration on the outside (scrolls and birds; floral details; inscription in capital letters “JAN – HEINRICK – TER – HYLICE – EECITE – ANNO – 1641”) and base also slightly inclined outwards. The hand or mace, tubular, presents engraved lines and moldings. Stylistically, this piece is inspired by European works of the 17th century. Weight: 3.9 kg.
· Size: 21.5x18x13 cms.
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Ref.: ZF0558
