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  • image SM volume 115/146b

Reference number

SM volume 115/146b

Purpose

Drawing 2 (top right): Single-handled volute krater

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

The vase, drawn here very meticulously, is of a type known as a volute krater named after its scrolling or volute handle formed of two matching halves. It is richly ornamented with gadrooning, foliate tendrils and various mouldings around the rim. The lower part of the vase is seemingly broken and missing, which suggests the object was a real one and not, as Ashby supposed, invented.

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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