Mortar late 15th or early 16th century French or North Italian (?) The exterior surface is divided into five sections by five herm caryatids, with seal-like ornaments in each section, two of which bear profile faces of a bearded man, the remaining ones respectively with the archangel Saint Michael weighing souls, a Gothic tabernacle with a head and a chalice, and a large four-petaled flower with two smaller Mortar. French or North Italian (?). late 15th or early 16th century. Copper alloy, with a grayish patina color, traces of green oxide on Metalwork

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