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Design for Covered Cups, from Dessins d'orfèvrerie (Designs for Metalwork)

René Boyvin, Pierre Milan1540–1560

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Fontainebleau school. Design for two covered cups. On the left, three nude women with twisting torsos, two putti at their feet, are holding up a bowl decorated with bucranium and garlands; below, a group of putti harvest and eat grapes. At right, a column of masks, lions and putti supports a cover showing two recumbent satyrs being urinated upon by a putto.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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