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  • image SM volume 115/146a

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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