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Lot 55: JACOPO STRADA

Est: $15,000 USD - $20,000 USD
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USJanuary 27, 2010

Item Overview

Description

DESIGN FOR A FLASK WITH SWING-HANDLE DECORATED WITH SEAGODS AND NEREIDES AND GROTESQUE MASKS

Dimensions

16 3/8 by 10 7/16 in; 416 by 264 mm

Artist or Maker

Medium

Pen and brown ink and gray-brown wash

Exhibited

S. Lawrence, reproduced p. 95

Provenance

Another version of this elaborate vase is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, catalogued as after Salviati, and bought in 1920 from the collection of Benno Geiger. (1)

1.See P. Ward-Jackson, Italian Drawings, Volume One: 14th -16th century, London 1979, p. 140, no. 287, reproduced

Notes



Auction Details

Old Master Drawings

by
Sotheby's
January 27, 2010, 10:00 AM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US