196 engraved plates of vases from antiquity

Antonini, Carlo:

Manuale di vari ornamenti componenti la serie de’ vasi antichi si’ di marmo che di bronzo esistenti a Roma e fuori. 1-3.

Roma, Stamperia de Romanis, 1821. Folio. (35 x 23 cms.) VI + 30; + 22; + 28 pp. + 196 engraved plates (3 frontispieces + 71 + 62 + 60).

Three parts bound in one volume, contemporary full vellum, a little soiled, speckled edges. Some slight marginal and corner dampstaining. Recent provenance: Swedish architect Ivar Tengbom (1878-1968), one of the best-known representatives of the Swedish neo-classical architecture of the 1910s and 1920s; with the Tengbom family to date.

A classic work by Carlo Antonini (1749-1835) about the ancient vases in the Vatican museums of the Popes Pio-Clementino and Chiarmonti, and those housed in the Capitoline Museum and the Galleries of Rome, as well as other vases found in the areas surrounding and throughout Rome.

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