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Antica Pompeii AP5

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GV3

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MOUNTFACON ANTIQUITIES ref: GV3

These prints of of ancient pottery with traditional classical designs were executed by Bernard de Montfaucon (1655 - 1741) was a French Benedictine monk and scholar. He published l'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures in between 1719 and 1724. It contained copper plate folio engravings of classical antiquities. It included a depiction of the "Barberini Vase" more commonly known as the "Portland Vase". This book is published in English under the title Antiquities, and was read with interest by Wedgewood, according to a letter he wrote on June 24, 1786, especially the engravings of the Portland vase.