Estimate

9.000 - 14.000

Session 2

21 July 2026

Hammer Price

Description

Turned Indo-Portuguese ivory

Mortar in the form of a deep bowl, with a cylindrical body and high walls, on a detached circular foot

Pestle of elongated form, with a rounded cylindrical end, decorated with parallel incised friezes at the ends and at the transition of the handle

16th/17th century

20,5x11,5 cm (almofariz)

25 cm (pilão)

Additional Information

With label from the former collection of Francisco Hipólito Raposo

With the CITES certificate no. 23PTLX12419C

Literature:
"A Expansão Portuguesa e a Arte do Marfim". Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 1991, p. 200, no. 590