- Material:
- Bronze
- Origin:
- Deventer
- Date:
- 1672
- Dimensions:
- Height: 34 cm, diameter: 42 cm
- Master:
- Gerrit Schimmel
- Marked:
- GERRIT SCHIMMEL ME FECIT DAVENTRIAE 1672
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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 labor following the birth of a son. Schimmel then married Anneke Willems in 1665. He lived near the foundry on the Noordenbergschild.