Sovra due dischi in bronzo antico-italici del Museo di Perugia e sovra l'arte ornamentale primitiva in Italia e in altre parti di Europa
Sovra due dischi in bronzo is an 1874 Turin study by the archaeologist Giancarlo Conestabile, printed by the Stamperia reale for scholars of ancient Italic bronzes and early ornament. Its plates show ancient bronze vessels, bowls and round shields, drawn as crisp engravings with shaded relief. A designer could take the concentric rings, dot-and-circle punching and Greek key borders as a repeatable vocabulary of primitive ornament.
