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Girolamo Genga

Design for a Bucket-Like Vessel with a Handle of Non-Figural Interlaces, on a Body Adorned with a River God and Two Putti

1540–50
Pen and brown ink, partly reworked with pen and darker brown ink, over black chalk; traces of framing outlines in pen and brown ink and black chalk
18.3 × 14.2 cm (7.2 × 5.6 in)

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