Antique Lidded Urn with Hybrid Male Sphinxes and a Female Mask on the Body, from Vases after the Antique
Enea Vico
1543 or after · Engraving, first or second state · Drawings and Prints
Antique lidded urn with hybrid male sphinxes on either side of the body of the vessel, supporting the lid. Suspended between them is a richly filled garland of fruits and flowers. Above the garland a mask in the shape of a female head with a turban is depicted. From a series of vase designs after the Antique, first published by Enea Vico in 1543, and later included in a composite series with other designs by Agostino Veneziano by Antonio Lafreri dated circa 1573 based on its presence in Lafreri’s catalogue.
- Artist
- Enea Vico
- Date
- 1543 or after
- Medium
- Engraving, first or second state
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
