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Drawing 1 (top left): Vase with volute handles
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Reference number
SM volume 115/150a
Purpose
Drawing 1 (top left): Vase with volute 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 single vertical stylus line at centre
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
The vase drawn here stands on a block-like plinth with an inset panel, and, above a squat circular stem, it has a lower bowl with gadrooning and then a concave and plain middle section capped with a moulding adorned with simple guilloche, above which is a lid-like element narrowing to a torus enclosing a small central opening. Its sides are adorned with handles in the form of inwards-curving volutes. Although in general finely drawn with much hatching, the plinth and the handle on the left are only sketched, and half of the guilloche moulding is unfinished. The drawing’s character 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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