Ornamental designs with stylized flowers and scrolling leaves
Published by Fleury Chavant French
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Page of book containing 185 leaves with a collection of lithographs, aquatints, engravings, and other media, with ornamental designs published by Fleury Chavant in Paris, part of the publication "Guide du Dessinateur de l'industrie: une macédoine de dessins variés , tels que fleurs, ornemens, etc. ... Ouvrage destiné aux fabricants et dessinateurs de soieries... et Papiers Peints..." This plate contains ornamental designs with stylized flowers and scrolling leaves. On the upper part of the page is a design, possibly for a border or ribbon, made up of an elongated teardrop-shaped fruit, flanked to the sides by schort, scallop-edged scrolling leaves, from which emerge longer scrolling leaves and scrolling branches with stylized flowers and flower buds, and thin branch offsets with small, round fruits. Below is a rectangular, black frame with thin interlacing branches with scrolling leaves, small stylized flowers, a lion and an own, containing a smaller frame, with curved upper border, containing a vertical knot. To its sides are two monogram letters, "A" and "B", in squares made up of thin, interlacing branches with scrolling leaves and smal, stylized flowers and flower buds. Under them is another design for a border (?), made up of thin, scrolling branches with scrolling leaves and small, stylized flowers and flower buds. Below it are two designs for borders or ribbons: the first made up of a shell motif containing a bee, flanked above by two scrolling acanthus leaves, from which emerge scrolling branches with laurel (?) leaves, interlaced by a ribbon, and framed above by a thin, horizontal stripe; the second is made up of ornamental frames made up of four C-curves, flanked to the sides by stylized fleurs de lis, and above and below by small rosettes, joined by interlacing strapwork flanked above and below by stylized, crown-shaped leaves, and alternatingly containing bees, framed above and below by thin, horizontal stripes with scalloping motifs of two different kinds, likely as variations of the design. The designs are executed with black ink on thin, light brown paper.
