Le trésor de Boscoreale
A late nineteenth-century French archaeological publication from Paris, issued by Ernest Leroux in 1899 and written by Antoine Héron de Villefosse with funding from Baron Edmond de Rothschild, for scholars of antiquity. Its plates show Roman silverware from the Boscoreale hoard, photographed in sepia-toned halftone with objects shown in close, even lighting. A designer could draw on the embossed rims, repeated medallion borders, and figural relief of these ancient silver vessels for ornament and classical motifs.
