Rococo Decorative Elements

Intricate Rocaille frames and friezes illustrating elegant leaf motifs, human figures, and ornamental designs from French artistic traditions.

Woman with bird in hand, Anonymous, After Adriaen Muntinck, 1615 print Groningen (possibly) paper engraving

Frontispiece. Joseph Mallord William Turner (England, London, 1775-1851). England, 1812. Prints; etchings. Etching and drypoint

Paris, Messager, Jean, Germany, Kasemann, Rutger, Livre d' Architecture contenant plusieurs beaux ornementz, Three friezes with scrollwork, Friezes, the middle one with a variant for the right half, with scrollwork containing grotesques, masks and animals. Sheet F from second edition of series, consisting of 24 sheets., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 136 mm, width 213 mm, Work conception, after a design by, 1622 - 1622, first quarter 17th century, paper, etching, etchings, print maker, printmaker, Publication (Event), Publication, French, 1580 - 1649-12-27, publisher

Monogrammist AC (16th century), Beham, Barthel, Frisian with vase between two putti with a helmet, print, ornamental print, prints, height 27 mm, width 78 mm, Work conception, 1502 - 1540, after print by, 1521 - 1590, 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), print maker, printmaker

Print, Design in Second Livre de Tableaux de Ornemens et Rocailles (Second Book of Ornaments and Rocailles); Designed by Jacques de Lajoüe (French, 1687-1761); Engraved by Gabriel Huquier (French, 1695-1772); France; engraving on laid paper; Sheet: 29.5 x 44.6 cm (11 5/8 x 17 9/16 in.) Platemark: 20.8 x 31.9 cm (8 3/16 x 12 9/16 in.)

Untitled Flowers, with three couples and a man (at right) in a landscape frieze below. Cochin, Nicolas, 1610-1686. 1680. Weigel, Johann Christoph, 1661-1726. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Ornamented ceiling; Ceilings; 16 Nouveau livre the ceilings. Detail of an ornamented ceiling with braid, horns of abundance, a figure in a (weapon) shield and a putto.

Print, Designs for a Stock and Firearms Ornament; Print Maker: de La Collombe (French, active 1702 - 1739); Published by Gilles Demarteau (Belgian, active in France, 1722 - 1776); France; etching and engraving on laid paper

Three Frisians with insects and fruit; Frisians with animals, insects and birds between leaf refines.

Running child, seen on the back; Flat decorations with leaf raft and children. Plate decoration. Shaded background. One of 4 sheets.

Three lists, Berthault ,, After Richard de Lalonde, 1784 - 1785 print A list of leaf motifs, a list of a slender of oak leaves and a list of tulips and leaf motifs. Paris paper etching / engraving ornaments ~ art (+ framing decorations)

Drawing, Design for an Embroidered Altar Front; Italy; brush and watercolor, pen and black ink, graphite on paper

Three lists, Berthault ,, After Richard de Lalonde, 1784 - 1785 print A list of oak leaves, a list of two tendrils and a list of acanthus leaves. Paris paper etching / engraving ornaments ~ art (+ framing decorations)

Bound Print (France)

Mascaron met wenkbrauwen; Ornamenten met cherubijnen en trossen fruit.Ornament with a mascaron with eyebrows and two bunches of fruit. Leged below numbered: 12. The print is part of an album.

Neumann Balthasar, Dom-Leichhof, Würzburg. (From: Leaves for architecture and handicrafts, 9th year, 1896, Tafel 47.) (1896-1896): Views wrought-iron graduation grilles. Light pressure on paper, 34.9 x 27.1 cm (including scan edges) Neumann Balthasar : Dom-Leichhof, Würzburg. (Aus: Blätter für Architektur und Kunsthandwerk, 9. Jg., 1896, Tafel 47)

France, Lepautre, Jean, Leaf vine with putto on eagle, Fries., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 116 mm, width 307 mm, Work conception, French, 1618-06-28 - 1682-02-02, after a design by, 1628 - 1732, second quarter 17th century, third quarter 17th century, fourth quarter 17th century, first quarter 18th century, second quarter 18th century, paper, papier, etching, etchings, print maker, printmaker, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Grecian Frieze Ornament, Print made by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812-1852, British, after Augustus Charles Pugin, 1762-1832, French, 1831, Lithograph on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 8 3/4 × 11 1/8 inches (22.2 × 28.3 cm), architectural subject

Adler Friedrich (1827-1908), architectural plastic (without dat.): Fries, vegetable motifs with mask. Pencil on the box, 40.8 x 112.8 cm (including scan edges)

Eight designs for cartouches, 1698 print Eight designs for cartouches with monograms and different crowns for ecclesiastical leaders and secular princes. Print in an album with 22 etchings from a series of originally 32 ornament prints with exuberant baroque designs for altars, sermon chairs, organ cabinets and other ecclesiastical arts and skills, followed by designs for heaven beds, children's ledulikants and other domestic furniture. paper etching ornament ~ cartouche

Titelprent Books of several baskets, Jean Baptiste Monnoyer, c. 1680 - C. 1695 Flower basket in which flowers. Print is part of an album. paper etching flowers in a vase

Cartouche with two boys. Draughtsman: Pieter Jansz.. Dating: 1657 - 1662. Measurements: h 67 mm × w 120 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Seated Sater between three heads and leaf motifs, Heinrich Aldeglever, 1512 - 1558 drawing Ornamental representation. paper. ink pen / brush satyr(s) (in general). ornament ~ hybrid beings; human and animal forms mixed. mask, mascaron ~ ornament

Augsburg, Leopold, Joseph Friedrich, Germany, Baumann, David, A new book of all kinds of gold work, Eight designs for jewels, nine insects and three leaf tendrils, Sheet 8 from a series of 17 sheets., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 178 mm, width 270 mm, 1668 - 1726, print maker, printmaker, 1695 - 1695, fourth quarter 17th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, - 1703, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

Weapons of the Seven Provinces. Draughtsman: Jan de Bray (rejected attribution). Draughtsman: Pieter Jansz.. Dating: 1630 - 1672. Measurements: h 177 mm × w 276 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Swans and Eagles, Anonymous, 1810 - 1830 print Above an elongated ornament with a fountain with a swan and arabesks on either side. In addition, an eagle. Left under an eagle. In addition, an ornament with Arabesken. On the right an ornament with round shape in the middle. All objects are numbered. England paper engraving ornamental fountain. water-birds: swan. predatory birds: eagle. ornament ~ arabesque

VIÑETA. Location: MUSEO DE HISTORIA-GRABADOS BLANCO Y NEGRO. MADRID. SPAIN.

Ornament met sfinxen; Ornamenten en grotesken; Ornament o grottesche.A leaf ornament with three sphinxes and a cup of a Sater.

Seed beads with landscapes. Six rocaille ornaments with view to landscapes. Publisher number 194.

Flowers and Insects, Anonymous, 1650 - 1666 Flowers and insects. Print from the series of eight prints with views of flowers, fruits, nut mushrooms and insects. paper etching flowers ~ ornament. ornament derived from animal forms. insects

Design for the Decoration of a Panel, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746-1809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper, Rome, Italy, 1746-1809, architecture, Drawing, Drawing

Stefano Della Bella, Festoon with Medici Coat of Arms, probably 1648 Festoon with Medici Coat of Arms

Fries met Minerva in cartouche; Varii zophori, figuris animalium ornati.Cartouche flanked by Putti, whose lower stops overflow in leaf rights where ribbons are wound around it. Leaf from series consisting of a title page and nine unnumbered sheets.

Details of the Devil House in Arnhem and the Schepenbank in Kampen, c. 1890 - c. 1922 Page 21 Recto from a sketchbook with 49 sheets. paper. pencil. ink pen ornaments ~ art Devil's house

Scenery to be used in a toy theatre: a rocky overhang, a palm tree and vegetation, trees and bushes and a ceremonial fire casket decorated with dragons. Lithograph.

Frame consisting of two vertical panels and two Frisians; Lists with leaf refrences, candlestick poles, vases with flowers and flowers. Frame printed of four logs. On both panels is at the bottom of a flower vase, above it is hope or belief in a niche. The lists are largely variants or copies late sixteenth century French and Flemish prints. All picture frames were used to illustrate a Bible.

Decorated initial D. Draughtsman: Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof. Dating: 1876 - 1901. Measurements: h 91 mm × w 114 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Della Bella, Stefano (dit Étienne de la Belle) (n.1610-05-18-D.1664-08-22), collection of twelve cartridges. Sixth number of a suite of 12 pieces. (A. de Vesme 1050; Dutuit 125) (main title). Etching. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Bound Volume, Frontispiece for Book 4, in Eight books of Ornament; William Delacour (French, 1741 - 1767); Engraved by François Vivares (French, 1709 - 1782); France; engravings on white laid paper, bound in half-calf and marbled boards; Open: 41.4 x 48.1 x 11.7 cm (16 5/16 x 18 15/16 x 4 5/8 in.)

Design for a Frieze, Pen and ink, graphite on paper, Horizontal rectangle. Right half of a design for a frieze is shown. At left are scrolls of an escutcheon with a sitting putto leaning upon them. At right is a trophy of arms, with two putti sitting upon it and a third putto flying. He and one of the stiting putti busy themselves with an ovoidal shield. The sitting one holds a palm branch in his other hand. The other sitting putto raises a wreath with his left hand., Italy, 1840-75, ornament, Drawing, Drawing

Print (France)

Bocholt (Germany), Meckenem, Israhel van, Tendrils with a couple in love, verso lower left - stamped, A couple sits close together, the lady with a dog on her lap, amidst leafy tendrils. Around them on the branches are some naked figures and a number of birds., print, ornamental print, prints, height 163 mm, width 240 mm, German, 1440 - 1517, print maker, printmaker, 1455 - 1503, third quarter 15th century, fourth quarter 15th century, first quarter 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process)

Sketch of Two Friezes, Palazzo Mattei 1776-79 Attributed to Thomas Hardwick British. Sketch of Two Friezes, Palazzo Mattei 364466

Design for a Frieze n.d. Attributed to Henri Sallembier French. Design for a Frieze 354031

Naked Infant Holding a Double Scroll of Leafy Ornament. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Heinrich Aldegrever.

Relief with Diana, man on deathbed and women around an altar; Roman sculpted reliefs; Icone et segment (...). Relief with a man in the middle on his deathbed surrounded by five figures. Left is the gravened goddess Diana on a rock. On the right there are three women around a burning altar. Text in Latin in top and bottom margin. Print is part of an album.

St. John the Baptist in the Desert. Artist: Master ES (German, active ca. 1450-67). Dimensions: Sheet: 7 1/4 × 7 7/16 in. (18.3 × 18.9 cm). Date: 15th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Piece. Culture: French. Dimensions: L. 12 3/4 x W. 10 inches (32.4 x 25.4 cm). Date: 18th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Etna Wiswall, Chest Design, 1935 1942 Chest Design

Panel of tiles ca. 1725-75 Dutch, Delft. Panel of tiles. Dutch, Delft. ca. 1725-75. Tin-glazed earthenware. Ceramics-Pottery

Fragments from the Tomb of Caecilia Metella in Rome; Archaeological finds in and around Rome; Le Antichità Romane. Fragments of sarcophagus and carved reliefs from the Tomb of Caecilia Metella to the via Appia Antica just outside of Rome. Explanatory list of letters in undermarge. Numbered above: Tom. III. / Lii.

Tuileries (Façade sur la Cour); Édouard Baldus (French, born Germany, 1813 - 1889); Paris, France; about 1868; Heliogravure; Sheet: 31.5 x 45 cm (12 3,8 x 17 11,16 in.)

Capital Letter T James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). Capital Letter T, 1886-1894. Ink on paper mounted on board, Sheet: 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. (11.5 x 11.5 cm). European Art 1886-1894

Opposite copies of the series mentioned under Orn Cat I-324A Title page and 14 partially numbered sheets from a series of 25, Nine masks and six small bunches of fruit Cups, goblets and bowls , print maker: anonymous, Paul Flindt (de Jonge), publisher: Assuerus van Londerseel, print maker: Germany, (possibly), Germany, (possibly), publisher: Netherlands, (possibly), c. 1500 - 1635, paper, h 171 mm × w 127 mm

Carpet Bag. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 42.7 x 34.8 cm (16 13/16 x 13 11/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 14" wide; 11 1/2" high. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Mary Berner.

Capital Letter S James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). Capital Letter S, 1886-1894. Ink on paper mounted on board, Sheet: 4 1/2 x 4 9/16 in. (11.5 x 11.6 cm). European Art 1886-1894

Netherlands, Jode, Gerard de, Vredeman de Vries, Hans, Doetechum, Johannes of Lucas van, Panoplia sev armamentarium, Four vertical trophies with armour and weapons, Four vertical trophies with armour and weapons: in the third from the left at the bottom a weapons tent, in the middle right a drum. From a series consisting of a title page and 16 sheets., print, ornamental print, prints, ornamental prints, height 183 mm, width 249 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1572 - 1572, third quarter 16th century, paper, etching, etchings, Work conception, South Netherlands, 1527 - 1607, after a design by, Publication (Event), Publication, North Netherlands, 1509 - 1591-02-05, publisher

NEF; Tableware. NEF: ship decorated with marine beings, mythological performances and fish, some of which were ridden by children. On the bow is the head of a Sater. Amor sits on a fish on the rear premises. The lid is open. There are napkins in the NEF

Three grotesque masks, 1540 - 1585 print Leaf with three performances of grotesque masks. Italy paper etching mask. mask, mascaron ~ ornament

Two leaf vines with rosettes, Paul Androuet Ducerceau, c. 1670 - c. 1693 print In the middle a coat of arms with a radiant sun (symbol of Louis XIV), above that a French royal crown. print maker: France (possibly)after design by: France (possibly)publisher: Paris paper etching

Crowned coat of arms with Andreaskruis, Bernard Picart (workshop of), After Bernard Picart, 1717 print A crowned coat of arms with Andreaskruis flanked by two griffins. Possibly the shield of a place or family in the vicinity of Amsterdam or the River De Amstel. On the left a sphinx and a caduceus, globe and book on the right. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving coat of arms (as symbol of the state, etc.)

Vignette, Ornamental Frieze, Maximilian Joseph Limpach, Czech, active the 1st half of 18th century, Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, Italian, 1692 - 1775, Engraving on paper, Festoons and pitchers suspended from bucrania., Europe, Rome, Italy, ca. 1730, Print, Print

Print (France)

Apollon á Délos ; Apollon hyperboréen still image. 1880 - 1883. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Palms, Lyres, Swans, Gods, Mythology, Apollo (Greek deity), Griffins

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