Origin: The Netherlands, Deventer
Master: Gerrit Schimmel
Inscription: GERRIT SCHIMMEL ME FECIT DAVENTRIAE 1672
Date: 1672
Dimensions: Height: 34 cm, Diameter: 42 cm
The mortar is decorated with two borders of round shields with sitting shield-bearers and a wild boar hunt.
Gerrit Schimmel was originally from Ochtrup in Westphalia. In 1659 he married Mecheltjen ter Horst in Deventer, a niece of the Deventer mortar caster Henrick ter Horst. She died in labour following the birth of a son. Schimmel then married Anneke Willems in 1665. He lived near the foundry on the Noordenbergschild.
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