Vase with Two Handles and Frieze with Lions, from "Series of Vases after the Antique"
Lidded vase with two high-arched handles resting on satyr masks. The body of the vase is divided in three tiers. The top frieze is marbled, the middle frieze is decorated with a motif of two lions flanking a ring and the bottom part pf the vase is decorated with gadroons. Tenth 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: Vase with Two Handles and Frieze with Lions, 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: 10 5/8 × 7 3/8 in. (27 × 18.7 cm)
- Classifications: Albums, Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
- Object Number: 26.50.1(42)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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