Stima della gabella di Modona sopra le mercantie
A 1575 Italian tariff schedule printed at Modena, a municipal list of customs duties on merchandise compiled by the city's law authorities for merchants and officials. The first picture is a woodcut printer's device of a heraldic shield framed by scrolling strapwork and a crown, and the second is a decorative border band with winged griffin-like creatures, lions or hounds, and sphinx-like figures over a grassy horizon. A designer could take the strapwork cartouche for a formal emblem frame and the border band for a symmetrical animal frieze.
