Monuments du moyen-âge et de la Renaissance, dans l'ancienne Pologne depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à la fin du XVII. siècle
A chromolithographed plate album published in Warsaw and Paris in 1855, compiled by Alexander Przezdziecki and Edward Rastawiecki, documenting medieval and Renaissance monuments of old Poland for an antiquarian audience. The plates show church metalwork such as a gilded chalice with enamelled bands, a Gothic-style reliquary tower with a crystal lunette, and an ornate monstrance-like vessel. A designer might take the dense enamel patterning, Gothic pinnacles and tracery, and the gold-and-blue palette for ornament.
