Mélanges d'archéologie, d'histoire et de littérature, rédigés ou recueillis
A mid-nineteenth-century French miscellany of archaeology, history and literature, compiled by Charles Cahier and published in Paris in 1847 for scholars and antiquaries interested in medieval art. Its plates show medieval church objects drawn in fine line: a lion-topped column with carved bands of figures, a spiral-fluted column with a Corinthian capital, and a crozier with a roundel of figures, with the last plate a faint engraving of a symmetrical metalwork ornament. A designer might draw on the spiral fluting, roundel framing and interlaced carved bands as ornament references.
