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Drawing 3 (second row, left): Vase with scrolling handles
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Reference number
SM volume 115/146c
Purpose
Drawing 3 (second row, left): Vase with scrolling handles
Aspect
Part of an ornamental composition
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 sketchy drawing is of a vase type known as a kantharos and it has a fluted body, scrolling handles and suspended garlands. It cannot, however, be a depiction relating to an actual vase, whether real or potential, seeing that the garlands at either side are hanging free, that two birds are perched on the vase’s rim, and that its base, which is in the form of a tripod, is much too small. Instead, it may have been copied from, or intended for, a decorative carving or painting.
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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