Plate 10, Livre de vases (Book of Vases)

Folio 10, plate 10 of a series of 12. Design for a curving vase influenced by shell forms to be executed in metal, placed on a pedestal. Two figures resting upon the body’s curves. At left, a standing satyr peers into the vase, his head holding the lid open. At right, a seated nude woman at the handle.