Satyr ca. 1530 Workshop of Desiderio da Firenze Italian Crisply cast with a carefully chased and hammered surface, the kneeling satyr peers intently with slightly parted lips at the candle socket held aloft in his right hand. His fig leaf is a nineteenth-century modification to the , the circular base and snail shell inkwell are nineteenth-century copies of a popular model first produced by the workshop of Severo da Ravenna in the sixteenth century. In particular, the circular base is of the same design as that of one of the satyress and infant satyr groups on the central tabl

Satyr ca. 1530 Workshop of Desiderio da Firenze Italian Crisply cast with a carefully chased and hammered surface, the kneeling satyr peers intently with slightly parted lips at the candle socket held aloft in his right hand. His fig leaf is a nineteenth-century modification to the , the circular base and snail shell inkwell are nineteenth-century copies of a popular model first produced by the workshop of Severo da Ravenna in the sixteenth century. In particular, the circular base is of the same design as that of one of the satyress and infant satyr groups on the central table in this gallery. Probably for this reason, these two works were displayed as a pair in the Lehman Satyr 461462

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