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Drawing 1 (left): Fantastical vase
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Reference number
SM volume 115/145a
Purpose
Drawing 1 (left): Fantastical vase
Aspect
Perspectival view
Scale
Not known
Signed and dated
- c.1515
Datable to c.1515
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink and grey-brown wash over traces of black chalk and a single vertical stylus line on axis of symmetry
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
This highly elaborate vase is a modern invention. Rising delicately from feet in the form of lions’ paws with some sort of acanthus-decorated bulb above them enclosing a concave plinth, it has a lower bowl ornamented with two masks with rings in their mouths from which hang delicate garlands. Its upper part is then decorated with fluting or gadrooning, from which ascend two outward-curving handles and a neck embellished with acanthus, leading to a opening ringed with petal-like ornament.
The drawing is stylistically in keeping with many others from the codex’s second phase of execution, as is seen in the extensive use of hatching which, at the right, continues beyond the vase’s outline. It was probably positioned on the sheet before the drawings to its right were added in a much more haphazard manner.
The drawing is stylistically in keeping with many others from the codex’s second phase of execution, as is seen in the extensive use of hatching which, at the right, continues beyond the vase’s outline. It was probably positioned on the sheet before the drawings to its right were added in a much more haphazard manner.
Literature
Ashby 1904, pp. 70–71
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Codex Coner has been made possible through the generosity of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance, Berlin.
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