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Vase (Plate 3 of Series)
Enea Vico (Italian, 1523–1567)
1543
- Medium
- Black ink on paper
- Classification
- Ornaments
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 24 × 18 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Credit line
- Museum purchase through gift of E.F. Caldwell & Co.
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Vertical rectangle. Ewer, with handle composed of a bird's leg, and spiral neck ending in a mascaron. Half-figures and a crab decorate the body. Inscribed below: "ROMAE AB ANTIQVO REPERTVM MD XXXXIII" and "A.E.V." on a tablet.
