Lidded Urn with a Band of Meandering Ornament, from "Series of Vases after the Antique"
Lidded urn with two handles. The body of the urn is divided in three parts. The top is decorated with a Band of meandering ornament, below it is a frieze that has been left blank and the bottom of the urn is gadrooned. Eleventh plate from a series of twelve vases after the antique, engraved by Antonio Veneziano dated 1530-1531. The prints were later published again by Antonio Salamanca.
Artwork Details
- Title: Lidded Urn with a Band of Meandering Ornament, from "Series of Vases after the Antique"
- Series/Portfolio: Series of Vases after the Antique
- Artist: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi) (Italian, Venice ca. 1490–after 1536 Rome)
- Date: 1531
- Medium: Engraving
- Dimensions: Plate: 9 5/16 in. × 7 in. (23.7 × 17.8 cm) [plate slopes down on the right and left of the top margin]
- Classifications: Albums, Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
- Object Number: 26.50.1(43)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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