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ECL-Bn.11:12-2013

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Identification

Title

Amphora

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

Description

Content (description)

The amphora stands on a high foot, which is decorated with leaves. The sides of the body are concave and this surface has a figure scene in relief: a winged putto urinates into a squat urn while a great snake coils round the amphora and threatens him with gaping jaws. The bottom of the body has a floral scroll emerging from a mask of an old man with cockleshell jaw and leafy hair. On the shoulder is a band of wave pattern beneath convex fluting. The amphora has a narrow neck and flaring lip. The handles join the lip in great volutes and are attached to the figured frieze, where they end in ivy leaves.
Beneath amphora: EX ROMANIS ANTIQUITATIBUS MDXXXXII

Content (object)

amphora

Content (note)


Dimensions

height (actual size): 281mm
width (actual size): 210mm

Inscription

In faint ink on the back of the engraving: No. 158 and also indecipherable pencil numbers

Materials & techniques note

copper engraving on paper

Production

Person

Unknown (Engraver)

Date

1542

History and association

Previous ownership

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