Recueil de quelques pieces concernant les arts : extraites de plusieurs Mercures de France
A 1757 Paris anthology of art writings compiled from several issues of the Mercure de France, the printed work of Charles Nicolas Cochin, aimed at readers of eighteenth-century French art and criticism. The single picture is a small engraved tailpiece or vignette of a symmetrical ornament, with a flower-filled urn above, swags and ribbons, and a central lozenge; a designer could draw on its rococo-to-neoclassical ornament for borders, dividers, and emblem-style crests.
