Pottery / mortarium / portion

Mouth fragment of a pottery mortarium, from Croy Hill, Dunbartonshire

Ceramic mortarium made at Newstead (Trimontium) by 'EMI...' (who stamped the vessel) and with an owner's graffito, from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium)

Portion of a stone mortar, with a drilled foot: Japan, Musashi province, Sugita shell-mound, prehistoric

Betel-nut mortar of silver-damascened iron, cylindrical with leafage in bands: Asia, South East Asia, Thailand or Laos, 18th century

Earthenware mortar with painted decoration, in the St Porchaire style: English, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Minton and Company, by Charles Toft senior, c. 1870

Brown glazed pottery mortar (suribachi) with incised surface on interior: Japan, 1930s - 1950s

Porcelain mortar, from the Heriot-Watt Pharmacy Collection, by Wedgwood, 20th century