Lidded Urn with a Band of Meandering Ornament, from "Series of Vases after the Antique"
Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi) Italian
Not on view
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.