Beschreibung römischer Altertümer [volume 2] / gesammelt von Carl Anton Niessen

Niessen, Carl Anton · 1911 · Cöln : Greven & Bechtold, 1911 · 167 pictures

A 1911 catalogue of Roman antiquities assembled by Carl Anton Niessen and published in Cologne by Greven & Bechtold, a scholarly reference volume for archaeologists and museum students. Its plates show numbered Roman pottery and glass vessels, some as engraved line drawings with measurements and some as photographs of shelved objects, so a designer could draw on their simple classical silhouettes, banded and ribbed forms, and wheel-turned profiles for vintage packaging or ancient-history motifs.

Niessen, Carl Anton -- Art collections · Pottery, Roman · Terra-cotta sculpture, Roman · Rome -- Antiquities

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