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ECL-Bn.11:17-2013

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Identification

Title

Jug with marine thiasos

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 tall foot has a large knob decorated with garlands held by nude putti. The body is basically spherical, but is made to look rather wide and squat by the figured frieze which runs round its middle. In the frieze Neptune drives through the waves on a cockle-shell pulled by sea-horses; tritons blow horns at left and right. Below the frieze is a leafy ornament, on the shoulder is a frieze of masks over swags of drapery, which are supported on clusters of leaves. There is spiral fluting on the narrow neck. The handle is formed by a dolphin with its head on the shoulder; at the junction between its tail and the trefoil lip is a mask. Beneath the spout is a ram's head.
Beneath the jug: EX ROMANIS ANTIQUITATIBUS MDXXXXII

Content (object)

jug

Content (note)


Dimensions

height (actual size): 269mm
width (actual size): 182mm

Materials & techniques note

copper engraving on paper

Production

Person

Unknown (Engraver)

Date

1542

History and association

Previous ownership

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