Description: A cone-shaped flower seen from the front with a curving stem and two tapered leaves, one on each side.
Also known as: tulip; jonquil.
Description of difference: Flowers in Group D have a relatively shorter, wider profile. The leaves are triangular and do not curve, unlike in Groups A, B, and E. One leaf is very close to the base of the flower.
Potential Twins: Indeterminate due to random location of moldmates.
[1] Because similarities to Briquet’s watermarks continue to be included in the literature, they have been cited here. Briquet comparisons were extracted from Carlo Pedretti and Carlo Vecce in “Apparati IV, V, Filigrane,” Il Codice Arundel 263 nella British Library: edizione in facsimile nel riordinamento cronologico dei suoi fascicoli (Florence: Giunti, 1998), 58-61; Carlo Pedretti, The Codex Hammer of Leonardo da Vinci, translated into English and annotated by Carlo Pedretti (Florence: Giunti Barbèra, 1987); Carmen C. Bambach in Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered, 4 vols. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019); and Juliana Barone, ed., Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion, exh. cat. (London: The British Library, 2019).
Arundel ff. 104-107
Available images (below): – De-noised image of watermark in Arundel ff. 104-107 – Overlay animation of Arundel ff. 104-107 and Arundel ff. 201-202 (Group D moldmates) – Overlay animation of Arundel ff. 104-107 and Leicester Sheet 7 (Group D and Group A) – Overlay animation of Arundel ff. 104-107 and Leicester Sheet 6 (Group D and Group B) – Overlay animation of Arundel ff. 104-107 and Arundel ff. 16-17 (Group D and Group C) – Overlay animation of Arundel ff. 104-107 and Arundel ff. 178-179 (Group D and Group E)
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Arundel ff. 201-202
Available images (below): – De-noised image of watermark in Arundel ff. 201-202
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Arundel ff. 212-213
Available images (below): – De-noised image of watermark in Arundel ff. 212-213
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Arundel ff. 237-242
Available images (below): – De-noised image of watermark in Arundel ff. 237-242
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