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Drawing 11 (right column, bottom): Ornamental vase with scrolled handles
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Reference number
SM volume 115/149k
Purpose
Drawing 11 (right column, bottom): Ornamental 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 very finely-wrought drawing shows a tall and richly ornamented vase which is conceivably antique and is of a type known as a volute krater. With scrolled handles and standing on a three-tier base, it has its lower part elaborately ornamented with vine leaves and grapes, with gadroons or fluting above, a plain neck and a gadrooned rim at the top. Its association with wine indicates that it either contained wine or, if made of stone, was carved in imitation of a wine krater. Although meticulously executed, the drawing still indicates 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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