Late Elizabethan / James I Lead Bronze Mortar, by Robert Orrell, Wigan, Lancashire, circa 1587-1614

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The narrow rimmed mortar cast beneath the lip with a raised band, having twin shaped and originally decorated handles above two raised bands further joining the handles. The body cast with owners triad initials ‘R W M’ .

See: M Finlay ‘English decorated mortars and their Makers’ 2010, p53, Fig’s 62, 63.