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

Ornament design after the antique

Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

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

Anonymous, Italian, 16th to 17th century

Design for Back of a Sedan Chair

Anonymous, French, 18th century, Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

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

Nicolas Guérard

Carriage Design

Anonymous, Italian, 17th or 18th century

Plate 7, 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

Designs for Ornament

Anonymous, French, 18th century

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

Giovanni Battista Foggini

Two friezes; at top, a grotesque head of an old man to left, a lion head to right, at bottom, a ram skull to left, a grotesque head of a man to right, plate 5 from "Friezes, foliage, and grotesques" (Frises, feuillages et grotesques)

After Stefano della Bella

Ornamental Design after the Antique; Bands of Acanthus Rinceaux, Figurated Palmettes, and Shell Cartouches

Anonymous, Italian, 15th to 16th century

Disegni Varii di Polifilo Zancarli

Polifilo Giancarli, Odoardo Fialetti, Tasio Giancarli