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Funerary Monument of a Boar’s-Headed Rhyton on a Vase with Concave Flutes Found in a Tomb on the Via Appia
18th century18th century
535 x 390 mm (21.1 x 15.4 in.)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778)
- animals - This section can use more hierarchical (quasi-Linnaean) refinement in future; extant terms were assembled into a fairly flat and slightly redundant structure to expedite conversion.
- boars
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- monuments
- ornament - Decorative forms that are an integral part of a building or object but are not essential to its structure. Regarding techniques of embellishment in general, use "decoration (process)." [November 1990 descriptor moved.]
- plate Dimensions: 535 x 390 mm (21.1 x 15.4 in.)
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, (1720–1778) . Funerary Monument of a Boar’s-Headed Rhyton on a Vase with Concave Flutes Found in a Tomb on the Via Appia, 18th century. From Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi, Tripodi, Lucerne, ed Ornamenti Antichi Disegn. ed Incisi dal Cav. Gio. Batta. Piranesi. Etching. plate : 535 x 390 mm (21.1 x 15.4 in.). DAC accession number Retrospective TBD. Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892).
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