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The crouching satyr, cornucopiae and finial surmounting the object is typical of the imagery within the school of Fontainebleau, which Delaune adopted and developed in his oeuvre. Etienne Delaune (1518/19-83) trained as a goldsmith and was appointed to the court of Henry II of France where he supplied designs for objects to be made either in metal or porcelain: tableware, armours, swords, jewellery, coins and medals. 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His style is marked by a great clarity in the composition, delineated with sharp lines and shaded with a pale wash, as noticed by the great 17th-century collector Pierre-Jean Mariette who owns several works by Delaune. It has been suggested that his drawings were originally made for submission to patrons, therefore executed on vellum and characterised by a sharp line and a delicate pale wash.\r\n\nTrained as a goldsmith, Delaune supplied many fashionable designs for tableware and this present ornamental centrepiece may be a design for a salt-cellar. A similar figure of a crouching satyr appears as a decorative element in a design by Delaune for a circular tazza bowl in the Louvre (Inventaire général, Ecole française, vol. V, No. 3545).\n\nThe present work shows the influence of the School of Fontainebleau yet rendered in Delaune’s own style. Comparative drawings can be found in the Royal collection, Windsor Castle (design for a cup, pen and bistre wash on vellum, 18.8 x 10.1 cm – Inv. No. 13052) while another design of the same characteristic in the V&A collection (see 2302). Analogous drawings on vellum are in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (in a folio album, Inv. No. B.2.Réserve) where they are catalogued as by an anonymous hand of the school of Fontainebleau. 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