Varias antiguidades de Portugal
Varias antiguidades de Portugal is a 1625 Portuguese antiquarian history by Gaspar Estaço, printed in Lisbon by Pedro Craesbeeck for a learned readership interested in the kingdom's past. Its pictures are small printed ornaments: three near-identical symmetrical cartouches of scrolls, rosettes and a central framed device, and a vase of flowers with grotesque heads, set among faint text. A designer might take the symmetrical scroll-and-rosette structure and the vase arrangement as compact models for dividers or headpieces.
