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Drawing 5 (left column, bottom): Fanciful flaming vase
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Reference number
SM volume 115/149e
Purpose
Drawing 5 (left column, bottom): Fanciful flaming vase
Aspect
Perspectival view
Scale
Not known
Signed and dated
- c.1515
Datable to c.1515
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink over black chalk and a single vertical stylus line at centre
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
The fantastical vase, a modern invention depicted perspectivally, rises from a putto’s head, and it has a couple of bell-like components towards the bottom, with an inverted cone above them adorned with hanging garlands and a mask, and then two successive drum-like elements with concave faces, and, finally, a rimmed aperture at the top from which flames emerge. The putto head at the very bottom discounts any possibility that the design is for an actual vase. Instead, it must have been intended as some sort of ornament, perhaps for a vase or for a piece of furniture. The drawing, rather more meticulous that those above it, is nevertheless consistent with a date of c.1515.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 71
Level
Drawing
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