A Lobster-Tailed Pot
Second Quarter Of The 17th Century
With one-piece hemispherical ribbed skull with ring-shaped finial on a circular washer, pointed fixed fall with turned edge and pierced for a moveable bar-nasal secured by a wing-headed screw, pointed neck-guard of four upward-lapping lames, triangular single-plate ear-pieces pierced with circular holes, and domed steel rivets throughout (some pitting and polished bright overall)
26.5 cm. high