Polychromatic ornament. One hundred plates in gold, silver, and colours, comprising upwards of two thousand specimens of the various styles of ancient, oriental, and mediæval art, and including therenaissance and the seventeenth and eigtheenth centuries
Racinet's 1877 Polychromatic Ornament is a London reference of one hundred colour plates by the French designer Auguste Racinet, gathering decorative styles from ancient, oriental, mediaeval, Renaissance and eighteenth-century art for ornament makers. The plates show dense repeating patterns: gilded and coloured metalwork panels, damask-like textile swatches in blue, ochre and green, and tiled geometric borders that a designer could adapt directly into pattern repeats and period-style surfaces.
