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Oeuvre de Jacques Androuet dit Du Cerceau: Coupes, vases, trophées, cartouches, fleurons, balustrades, ferronnerie

Androuet DuCerceau, Jacques, Baldus, Édouard [Bearb.] · 1880 · 179 pictures

A French ornament pattern book compiled from the work of Jacques Androuet du Cerceau and edited by Édouard Baldus, published in 1880 and held by Heidelberg University Library, meant for decorative artists and designers. The plates show Renaissance-style ornament: balustrade-like scrolled supports, interlaced strapwork cartouches, and acanthus-leaf scrollwork in framed panels, offering designers reusable geometric and foliate motifs for borders, panels and metalwork.

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