Ornamental

Anonymous Flemish Goldsmith
Bust of a Woman
ca. 1450-1500
enameled gold brooch fragment
(mounted on modern pin)
British Museum

Albrecht Dürer
Design for Turnip-shaped Cup
1526
drawing
British Museum

attributed to Benvenuto Cellini
Bacchic Dance
before 1570
gilt-bronze plaquette
British Museum

Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau the Elder
Salle des Caryatides, Château du Louvre
ca. 1570
ink and watercolor on vellum
British Museum

Pieter Claesz
Still Life with Covered Goblet
1624
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

Stefano della Bella
Masque Costumes for Riders
before 1664
drawing
British Museum

Francesco Bartoli after Benvenuto Cellini
Gold Pectoral made for Pope Clement VII Medici
(front view with God the Father)
before 1730
watercolor and gouache on paper
British Museum

Francesco Bartoli after Benvenuto Cellini
Gold Pectoral made for Pope Clement VII
(side view)
before 1730
watercolor and gouache on paper
British Museum

Francesco Bartoli after Benvenuto Cellini
Gold Pectoral made for Pope Clement VII
(back view with Medici coat-of-arms)
before 1730
watercolor and gouache on paper
British Museum

Benigno Bossi after Ennemond Alexandre Petitot
Jeune Moine - Mascarade à la Grecque 
1771
etching
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Alfred Edward Chalon
Actress in Stage Costume
1829
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Charles Clifford
Portal, Mendoza Palace, Guadalajara
1856
albumen silver print
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Giacomo Casa
Motifs for Wall and Ceiling Decoration
ca. 1860
watercolor and ink on paper
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Giacomo Brogi
Column Capital - Certosa di Pavia
before 1881
albumen silver print
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Walter Crane
The Fox and Pelican
1899
watercolor and ink on paper
(design for pub sign)
British Museum

Kenyon Cox
Peace and Plenty
ca. 1901
oil on canvas
(study for mural at Hotel Manhattan)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Jim Dine
The World (for Anne Waldman)
1972
lithograph, screenprint and woodcut
Reynolda House Museum of American Art,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Sonnet

Alexis, here she stayed; among these pines,

Sweet hermitress, she did alone repair;

Here did she spread the treasure of her hair,

More rich than that brought from the Colchian mines.

She set her by these muscat eglantines,

The happy place the print seems yet to bear;

Her voice did sweeten here thy sugared lines,

To which winds, trees, beasts, birds did lend their ear.

Me here she first perceived, and here a morn

Of bright carnations did o'erspread her face:

Here did she sigh, here first my hopes were born,

And I first got a pledge of promised grace;

    But ah! what served it to be happy so,

    Sith passèd pleasures double but new woe? 

– William Drummond of Hawthornden (ca. 1614)