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Mortar
Alberghetti Foundry
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City, United States
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- Title: Mortar
- Creator: Alberghetti Foundry
- Date Created: 1551–80, (model), (possibly cast in France, first half of the 19th century)
- Physical Dimensions: H. 21.3 cm, diam. 24.5 cm (rim).
- Type: Mortar
- External Link: http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/460438
- Medium: Copper alloy with a high content of tin, some lead, and no trace of zinc; the usual trace elements of iron, nickel, silver, and antimony are present, confirming that this is an alloy of fire-refined copper, certainly dating before about 1880; dark brown patina.
- Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- Culture: Italian, Venice
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