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  • image SM volume 115/150c

Reference number

SM volume 115/150c

Purpose

Drawing 3 (bottom left): Vase with curving 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

This vase has a bowl decorated in its lower part with gadrooning and in its upper part with palmettes, and it has ‘S’-shaped handles with projecting lower ends. Whether the design was of ancient or modern origin is not clear. The vase’s foot is left unfinished, but the drawing which is consistent in style with a date of c.1515, is otherwise finely wrought.

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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