Medici Vase - Johan Teyler
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Prints: Size listed always refers to the paper size, inclusive of any white border shown.
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A print of Johan Teyler's colour engraving of the Medici Vase — one of the Dutch printmaker's celebrated à la poupée plates, in which several colours are inked onto a single copperplate and pulled through the press in a single pass. Teyler invented the technique in the late 17th century.
The Medici Vase itself is a monumental Pentelic marble krater carved in Athens in the 1st century AD, now held in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Its continuous high-relief frieze is usually read as a scene from the Trojan War cycle — the prophetic seer Calchas foretelling the sacrifice of Iphigenia — though other readings have been proposed over the centuries. The vase was acquired by the Medici family in the 16th century for their Roman villa and moved to Florence in the 18th, where it has since been one of the most copied ornamental vases in European decorative art.
Johan Teyler (1648–1709) was a Dutch painter, engineer, and printmaker; his colour-plate experiments anticipated the decorative print culture of the 18th-century Grand Tour. Pair with the companion plates: Borghese Vase and Piranesi Vase.
- Museum-grade Giclée print
Museum-grade Giclée printing: The gold standard for gallery art prints.
- Weight: 200 g/m2
- Material: 100% FSC® certified paper
- Finish: Matte, natural white
- Inks: Premium archival, water-based
Size always refers to paper size (including any white border shown; excluding frame width).
Free framing service: Expertly assembled in a dust-free environment, arriving ready-to-hang.
- 2cm wide, 2.2cm deep
- Material: Lightweight FSC® certified ash wood
- Finish: Smooth satin laminate, or uncoated wood grain (Natural)
- Glaze: Shatterproof Perspex
Size always refers to paper size (including any white border shown; excluding frame width).
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