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Blackwork Print with Birds and Grotesques Atop a Horizontal Panel, from a Series of Blackwork Prints for Goldsmiths' Work

Etienne Carteron

Symmetrical blackwork design with a large horizontal panel at center, above two smaller panels and a ring bezel, all in Schweifwerk patterns. At top, grotesques and birds eat from a bowl of fruit, while sea creatures hang from lines at the sides. Plate 7 from a series of eight plates published in Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne (Ain) with blackwork designs for goldsmiths' work.

Credit: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947

1615
Blackwork engraving
12.1 x 8.9cm
47.108.5
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