Collection Sigismond Bardac: faiences italiennes du 15e siècle, objets de haute curiosité moyen age et renaissance
A 1913 French catalogue of the Sigismond Bardac collection of 15th-century Italian maiolica, compiled by Henri Leman and digitised by Heidelberg University Library, aimed at collectors and connoisseurs of medieval and Renaissance objects. Its painted plates and jugs show blue, ochre and green glazes, with profile portrait medallions, scale-like rim patterns, and putti heads framed in bands of rectangles and arches, offering designers historical ornament built from repeated geometric and figurative motifs.
