Gli antichi tesori sacri della Basilica Vaticana
A plate book of 1898 printed in Rome by Filippo Cuggiani, written by the German archaeologist Anton de Waal, recording the ancient sacred treasures kept in St Peter's Basilica for scholars and church collectors. The four plates show reliquary crosses, a portable reliquary triptych, a Veronica veil image and an ornamental border, drawn in fine black line on pale paper, offering a designer clear models for jewelled cross silhouettes, enamel-style pattern bands and Byzantine-influenced religious ornament.
