Let's rate some bulls

[nablator]

Yes, this is bizarre. In my opinion, the best explanation is that a tree that was originally in the background, has been reinterpreted  and "corrected" as a foreground basket. 

I've been wondering how so many mistakes (like the horrible anatomically wrong legs) could have happened when copying the Zodiac from a model. A direct copy can't be that bad. I imagine a scenario where the author of the VM's drawings did not have access to the original but had to rely on someone's bad sketches.