Mélanges d'archéologie, d'histoire et de littérature: Collection de mémoires sur l'orfévrerie ...: 2
This is a mid-nineteenth-century French archaeological miscellany by Charles Cahier and Arthur Martin, published in 1851 and written for scholars of medieval goldsmithing and decorative art. The plates show medieval ornament drawn from textiles, metalwork and carved ivory panels, with one sheet of birds flanking a pink and green stuff pattern. A designer could take the symmetrical, heraldic bird-and-scroll repeats and the framed narrative reliefs as ready-made motifs for pattern work.
