ECL-Bn.11:11-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bn.11:11-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Amphora with maenads
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
The volume Bn 11, entitled Vase antiche, is devoted entirely to vases, some antique, but mostly fanciful products after the antique. A large number of the engravings have the initials AE. V and the representation of fanciful vases fall into three groups, distinguished by the inscriptions (a) sic Romae antiqui sculptores ex aere et marmore faciebant,
(b) ex Romanis antiquitatibus,
(c) Romae ab antiquo repertum
(b) ex Romanis antiquitatibus,
(c) Romae ab antiquo repertum
Description
Content (description)
The lidded amphora has slender foot and neck and very slender handles. The foot is decorated with leaves, the belly with convex flutes. Round the middle of the body is a frieze in which two maenads dance by a bearded herm; this band is framed between a frieze of peltas below and a frieze of garlands hanging from animal heads and cockle shells above. On the shoulder are convex flutes. On the neck channels rise vertically from lotus buds. The tall knobbed lid has fluted decoration. The handles rise from cockleshells in the garland frieze and join the lip as monsters' heads.
beneath the amphora: EX ROMANIS ANTIQUITATIBUS MDXXXII L.V.
beneath the amphora: EX ROMANIS ANTIQUITATIBUS MDXXXII L.V.
Content (object)
amphora
Content (note)
Dimensions
height (actual size): 265mm
width (actual size): 182mm
width (actual size): 182mm
Materials & techniques note
copper engraving on paper
Production
Person
Unknown (Engraver)
Date
1542