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  • image SM volume 115/146c

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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