Raccolta delle vere da pozzo (marmi pluteali) in Venezia
A late nineteenth-century Venice publication by Ferdinando Ongania, issued by his own press in 1889, collecting measured drawings of Venetian well-heads, the carved marble basins known as vere da pozzo. The four plates show each well-head as a single stone drawn in pen and wash on a plinth, with an Italian caption beneath. For a designer, the strongest takeaway is the sculptural vocabulary: interlaced bands, shield-like panels, scrolled volutes and cross motifs carved in low relief around a cylindrical or square bowl.
