Plates from the “Cabinet de Peiresc” which has two volumes and was published in Paris in 1620. Antique vases, mostly. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, gallica.bnf.fr.


Antique vases. Page 8r, Recueil, Cabinet de Peiresc. Numérisation de RESERVE AA-54-FOL. Image source:gallica.bnf.fr / BnF. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525058020/f19.item.r=Cabinet%20de%20Peiresc
Vase with a brown ground and polychrome decorations. Page 12r, Recueil, Cabinet de Peiresc. Numérisation de RESERVE AA-54-FOL. Image source:gallica.bnf.fr / BnF. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525058020/f27.item.r=Cabinet%20de%20Peiresc.zoom#
Page 13r, Recueil, Cabinet de Peiresc. Numérisation de RESERVE AA-54-FOL. Image source:gallica.bnf.fr / BnF. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525058020/f29.item.r=Cabinet%20de%20Peiresc.zoom
Antique ceramics modeled as women’s heads, Page 14r, Recueil, Cabinet de Peiresc. Numérisation de RESERVE AA-54-FOL. Image source:gallica.bnf.fr / BnF. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525058020/f31.item.r=Cabinet%20de%20Peiresc.zoom#
“Alabaster Cochlearia XIIII” Page 15r, Recueil, Cabinet de Peiresc. Numérisation de RESERVE AA-54-FOL. Image source:gallica.bnf.fr / BnF. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525058020/f33.item.r=Cabinet%20de%20Peiresc.zoom#
Page 16r, Recueil, Cabinet de Peiresc. Numérisation de RESERVE AA-54-FOL. Image source:gallica.bnf.fr / BnF. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b525058020/f35.item.r=Cabinet%20de%20Peiresc.zoom#

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