Included among the objects section of many sales featuring oak and vernacular material there are often examples of early metalware.
This can encompass pewter plates and flagons, brass candlesticks and miscellaneous ironwork – pieces that often appeal to specific collecting niches, writes Anne Crane.
At Woolley & Wallis’ furniture and works of art sale on April 12, the opening oak section is followed by some 24 lots of English and Continental bronze mortars. They have been consigned from two sources, one anonymous, the other part of a larger collection of apothecary material that has come from the late Ian Jenkins. They range in date from the 15th to 18th centuries.