Ornement de Ducerceau
An ornament print book published in Paris by Pierre Mariette, drawn by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, a sixteenth-century French architect, and collected for architects and craftsmen working in decorative ironwork. The four plates show pairs of rectangular panels with scrolling strapwork, interlaced cartouches and foliate borders, arranged with the upper and lower panel on each page. A designer could take the symmetrical framing and the balance of curling scrolls for gates, grilles or cast-iron borders.
