Title: Mortar with Animal Frieze
Object type: Mortar
Date: 1603
Artist: Modeled by Caspar Gras 
Artist bio: Austrian, Bad Mergentheim, near Würzburg 1585–1674 Schwaz, near Innsbruck
Artist nationality: Austrian
Artist role: Modeler
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 7 1/4 × 7 7/8 × 6 3/4 in. (18.4 × 20 × 17.1 cm)
Classification: Sculpture-Bronze
Credit line: Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Acquisitions Fund, 2017
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Frogs, term: Dragonflies, term: Snails, term: Lobsters