Lidded Urn, from "Series of Vases after the Antique"
Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi) Italian
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Lidded urn characterized by a largely gadrooned body broken up by a frieze with meandering acanthus scrolls and two stubbed handles in the shape of lion's heads. First 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. The same vase is also known from an etching by the French printmaker Jacques Androuet Ducerceau.
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