Bo gu tu : san shi juan
Bo gu tu is a thirty-chapter Chinese catalogue of ancient bronzes, printed in 1752 by the Yi zheng tang publishing house in China and drawing on earlier Song and Yuan antiquarian scholarship. The pages show ritual vessels, mostly tripod ding cauldrons, drawn in clean outline with small inscription columns beside them. A designer could take their simple line drawings and symmetrical, footed silhouettes as a model for minimal vessel icons and archaic ornament borders.
