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Ornament & Design

5,940 works

Vertical engraved ornament panel with scrolling foliage, urns, and a nereid with two children riding sea creatures at the bas

Ornament Panel: Nereid Ridden by Two Children

Giovanni Pietro Birago, 1505

Vertical ornament panel with engraved scrollwork, classical urns, serpents, and small nude putti.

Ornament Panel: Three Children Blowing Horns

Giovanni Pietro Birago, 1505

Engraved vertical ornament panel with two putti, stacked urns, acanthus scrolls, and sphinx figures at the base.

Ornament Panel: Two Sphinxes and Two Children Holding Palms

Giovanni Pietro Birago, 1505

Vertical ornament panel with a stacked urn, scrolling foliage, two putti holding a cartouche, and two sphinxes at the base.

Ornament Panel: Two Sphinxes Supporting Shields

Giovanni Pietro Birago, 1505

Vertical engraved ornament panel with a triton at the base, two satyr infants, cherubs, an urn and dense scrollwork.

Ornament Panel: Triton and Two Infant Satyrs

Giovanni Pietro Birago, 1505

Vertical ornament panel with scrollwork, a central vase, putti, rabbits, and children at top and bottom, in grey line work.

Ornament Panel: Four Children with a Cat and a Dog

Giovanni Pietro Birago, 1505

Pencil sketch of a woman raising a glowing champagne glass, seated beside a pedestal within a decorative circular frame.

Design for an advertisement for champagne

Jean-Roch Isnard, ca. 1900

Watercolor design for a neoclassical wall with blue and cream panels, classical figures, garlands and urn motifs.

Design for Wall, Hôtel de Beaujon, Paris

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1872

Engraved sheet of architectural ornaments: coffered vaults, acanthus scrolls, a cornice with masks and a female medallion por

Ornamenten op de Romeinse triomfboog in Orange, 1639

Jean Beuf, 1637

Ornamental title page with red lettering L'Autocrapae, 1864, flanked by winged angels, putti and scrollwork frame.

Ornament met engelen en putti

Firmin Gillot, 1864

Ink and wash architectural elevation of a classical garden façade with fluted columns, arcades and a balustrade.

Design for the Garden Façade of the Palais Royal

Victor Louis, 1781

Engraving of St. George lancing a dragon while a princess watches from a hill and a walled town appears at right.

St. George and the Dragon; Designs for Goldsmiths

Israhel van Meckenem, 1470-1503

Grey drawing of an ornamental border with a statue, flags, laurel, and a street gateway inscribed La Dépêche.

Design for a Certificate(?) sponsored by the French newspaper, La Dépêche

La Dépêche, 19th century

Watercolor perspective of a wooden cottage-villa with bracketed gables and veranda, with a floor plan below.

Design for a Cottage-Villa in the Bracketted Mode, Constructed in Wood (perspective and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1842

Engraving of a muscular bearded nude man in an oval cartouche, flanked by two cherubs in an ornate scrolled frame.

Johannes de Doper in een cartouche

Cherubino Alberti, 1591

Pen and ink drawing of a vertical grotesque panel with an urn, acanthus scrolls, and a satyr figure at the base.

Grotesque with a Satyr

Unknown artist

Watercolor design of Neptune on a shell chariot with tritons, cherubs and sea creatures above a painted blue paneled wall.

Design for a Wall Decoration with Neptune and His Retinue

Rienk Keyert, 1751

Cartouche met bovenin een medaillon met het portret van Lodewijk XV

Louis Jean Desprez, 1753

Engraved print of dense acanthus leaves and curling scrollwork on a dark ground, with a small monogram in the upper left.

Ornament met bladranken

Albrecht Altdorfer, 1506

Two Grotesque Heads

Hans Liefrinck, 1538-73

Pencil design drawing of a tomb monument with an oval medallion bust, scrolled console, and reclining figures.

Design for the Tomb of Christophe de Thou (d. 1582)

Barthélemy Prieur, 16th century

Grey wash drawing of a canal with a Rococo arch, rowing boats, figures and a sailing ship under a cloudy sky.

Venetian Fantasy with an Ornamental Arch

Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, 1750s

Pastel watercolor design for a ceiling with floral garlands, ivy, scrollwork and a central medallion framed by ornamental bor

Ceiling design for a house on the rue Velezai

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Sheet of many ornamental design fragments including cherubs, scrollwork, a heraldic crest, floral medallions and an architect

Seventeen Ornamental Designs for the Pless House or Chateau

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Engraved vertical ornament panel with a bear, winged putti, a monogram plaque, a vase and acanthus scrolls.

Ornament met beer en vijf putti

Monogrammist AC, 1529

Circular ceiling design with three cherubs and a pink ribbon on a pale blue sky, framed by flowers and gold scrollwork.

Ceiling Design for the Pless Chateau, Silesia

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Painted design for an octagonal ceiling with stucco scrolls, flower garlands, red drapery, cherubs and a sky opening.

Design for Octagonal Ceiling in the Pless House, Berlin

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Brown wash design for a rococo wall panel showing a castle on a hill, trees, and a hunted stag at the base.

Design for a Decorative Wall Panel with Hunting Motif, Pless Chateau, Silesia

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Brown wash drawing of an oval ceiling design with scattered putti and cherubs among clouds, over faint grid lines.

Design for an Oval Ceiling, probably for Pless Residence

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Painted lunette design with cherubs, flower garlands, a parrot, gilded drapery and a potted plant beneath an arch.

Design for the Decoration of a Lunette on the Staircase, Hôtel de Pless, Berlin

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century