Recueil d'ornements et de sujets pour être appliqués à l'ornementation des armes d'après les dessins des principaux artistes / gravé et publié par Charles Claesen
An 1800 ornament album published in Liège by Charles Claesen, collecting engraved designs for decorating weapons after drawings by leading artists, aimed at armourers and metalworkers. The plates show dagger and sword hilts, pommels and a flintlock pistol covered in interlaced scrolls, foliage, animal heads and figural panels, offering a designer dense historical ornament to adapt for borders, handles and metal patterns.
