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Livio Agresti

Design for a Salt Cellar or a Table Fountain

1570-1620
Pen and brown ink, with brush and blue wash, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, perimeter mounted to buff wove paper, prepared with a brown wash
13.6 × 18 cm (5.4 × 7.1 in)

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