Regimento dos Contos.
Regimento dos Contos is a 1669 Portuguese administrative regulation printed in Lisbon at the workshop of Ioam da Costa, issued by the Casa dos Contos, the Portuguese royal accounting office. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments, a headpiece-like panel, and decorative tailpieces built from grotesque masks, fruit swags, scrolling acanthus, and putti. A designer could draw on their symmetrical, mirrored compositions and the way fruit garlands and cherubs frame a central cartouche.
