Antique Lidded Vase with Two Handles emerging from the Heads of Hybrid Female Sphinxes, from Vases after the Antique
Enea Vico
1543 or after · Engraving [second state] · Drawings and Prints
Antique lidded vase with two handles emerging from the heads of hybrid female sphinxes. The tails of the sphinxes are curled and hold up a garland suspended from a mask in the shape of a horned bull. 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 [second state]
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
