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  • image SM volume 115/149h

Reference number

SM volume 115/149h

Purpose

Drawing 8 (middle column, centre): Vase with scrolled handles

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

This vase – a volute krater – with a delicate double-tier base and a top rim decorated with simplified egg-and-dart, has tall scrolling handles attached to its shoulders by fanning lobes. The handles of the vase are similar to those of Drawing 11 and the juxtaposition is probably intentional. It is conceivably of antique origin. The drawing’s style suggests a date of c.1515.

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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