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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Engraved page of six rococo vegetable ornament designs around a central title cartouche, by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740.

Ornament Design with Two Dead Birds lying on Acanthus Branch, from Livre de Legumes [Series of Vegetable Ornament], p…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved rococo ornament plate with a crested bird, kneeling figures, scrollwork cartouches and an umbrella-holding figure.

Ornament Design with Figures and Birds

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Black and white ornamental frieze with two birds perched on arches, flanked by scrolling foliage, flowers and wreath motifs.

Frieze with Birds, Flowers, Wreaths and Scrolls

Theodor Bang, 1590

Engraved rococo ornament with scrolls, a seated plumed figure, birds and flowers, by Antoine Aveline, 1730.

Ornament Design with Birds and a Figure

Antoine Aveline, 1730

Engraved vertical ornament panel with a winged figure holding a bird cage, centaurs, horses, and symmetrical scrollwork.

Ornament Panel with Bird Cage

Nicoletto da Modena, 1500

Etching of Leda seated nude beside a swan by a pond, framed by a draped curtain and trees, with Latin and German captions.

Leda and the Swan

Bartholomäus Ignaz Weiss, 1740