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Girolamo Genga

Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Interlaced Figures, on a Body Adorned with Bucrania, Garlands, and Three River Gods

1540–50
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; traces of framing outlines in pen and brown ink at left and bottom
21.1 × 17.5 cm (8.3 × 6.9 in)

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