Vase with a Mask, Garlands and Two Crabs
Not on view
Depiction of a vase or ewer. The vase is caracterized by a frieze decorated with a mask from which two garlands spring forth. On either side of the mask a crab has been placed. The print is part of a series of 12 vases said to be designed by Rosso Fiorentino and Polidoro da Caravaggio and initially engraved and published by René Boyvin. The current series was first published by Claes Jansz. Visscher in the early seventeenth century and subsequently also by Frederik de Wit.