France (Paris)

Plate 2 Three Fragments of Friezes on Top a Grotesque Head of a Man a Skull of a Ram at Bottom Left and a Chimera at Bottom Right from Friezes Foliage and Grotesques Frises feuillages et grotesques

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Baroque Period and 17th Century

Plate 2 from an ornament print series titled Friezes, foliage, and grotesques (Frises, feuillages et grotesques), featuring multiple separated horizontal frieze fragments and design elements, including a prominent grotesque human mask entwined with acanthus foliage on the upper register, a ram skull with curling acanthus tendrils at the bottom left, and a winged chimera or mythological hybrid creature beside a wreath at the bottom right