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  • image SM volume 115/145c

Reference number

SM volume 115/145c

Purpose

Drawing 3 (centre): Tripod supporting a basin

Aspect

Perspectival view

Scale

Not known

Signed and dated

  • c.1515
    Datable to c.1515

Medium and dimensions

Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk

Hand

Bernardo della Volpaia

Notes

This tripod of modern design, perhaps an invention of the draughtsman but possibly a copy of another drawing, has three tall spindly legs rising from animal feet, and carries a basin decorated with foliage and fluting that has a wide brim with rope and bead-and-reel mouldings. In its handling it is akin to the vase immediately to its right (Drawing 4) and it may have been drawn at the same time. As with the other drawings on the page, it belongs to the second phase of the codex’s manufacture.

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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