Ornament design after the antique

Antique-Style Ornamental Frieze Design: Lettered Panels, Rinceaux, and Masks

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

Design for One Half of an Altar, with an Angel (of the Annunciation) at the left

Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

Sheet with Various Studies of Candelabra Grotesques, Foliage and a Cartouche

Anonymous, Italian, 16th to 17th century

Architectural Design with a Cartouche Flanked by a Siren

Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

Disegni Varii di Polifilo Zancarli

Polifilo Giancarli, Odoardo Fialetti, Tasio Giancarli

Plate 8, from "Livre Nouveau de Prinsipes D'Ornemens, tres facil. Pour apprendre a Dessigner"

Nicolas Guérard

Domus Aurea, Volta Gialla, grotteschi, details (recto) Unidentified building, thermal window, elevation (verso)

Drawn by Anonymous, French, 16th century

Design for the Frame of a Mirror or Fire Screen (recto); Various Sketches (verso).

Giovanni Battista Foggini

Pier Glass Frames, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I

Thomas Chippendale

Plate 5, from "Orthographia"

Johann Daniel Preissler

Plate 7, from "Livre Nouveau de Prinsipes D'Ornemens, tres facil. Pour apprendre a Dessigner"

Nicolas Guérard

Two friezes; at top, an eagle and the head of a lion, at bottom, a lion head and two grotesque heads of men, plate 7 from "Friezes, foliage, and grotesques" (Frises, feuillages et grotesques)

After Stefano della Bella