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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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