Design for Strapwork Ornament
Anonymous, French, 19th century French
Not on view
This strapwork design was likely meant as a tail-piece or vignette in a book. The ornamental vocabulary is inspired by sixteenth-century examples, created in The Netherlands, Flanders and France from ca. 1550 onwards. A renewed interest in this kind of ornament emerged during the nineteenth century, especially during the period of national historicism that peaked in the third quarter of the century.
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