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  • image SM volume 115/145d

Reference number

SM volume 115/145d

Purpose

Drawing 4 (centre right): Richly ornamented vase

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 vase – a modern invention – stands on a short-stemmed, flared pedestal and consists of a gadrooned bowl, a near-cylindrical middle section ornamented with what seems like foliate decoration and garlands hanging from above, and a short upper band that flares outwards at the lip. Above this is a notional lid embellished at its base with four rams’ heads (three shown) which leads up to a concave neck and a narrow opening at the top. The drawing is similar in style to the one next to it, although the viewpoint is different, and it was probably added to the page at some final stage during the second phase of the codex’s production.

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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