My Most Interesting Thing: Bronze Mortar

1.) What is it?
Bronze Mortar

2.) Why have you chosen it?
It's age, history and charm. 

3.) When did it first catch your eye?
When it arrived in the collection in the late 1980's

4.) If it was yours, what would you do with it?
Display it

5.) What stuff do you (or did you) collect?
Paintings, Asian works - Netsuke, ceramics and small bronzes.

Anonymous, Carrick Hill Guide