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Drawing 1 (top left): Shallow ornamental vase
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Reference number
SM volume 115/146a
Purpose
Drawing 1 (top left): Shallow ornamental 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 black chalk
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
This hurried and small sketch is of a shallow vase, probably a modern invention, with scrolling handles and gadrooned decoration. As with all the drawings on this sheet, it belongs to the second phase of the codex’s production.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 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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