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