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Scrollwork

"The scroll in art is an element of ornament and graphic design featuring spirals and rolling incomplete circle motifs, some of which resemble the edge-on view of a book or document in scroll form, though many types are plant-scrolls, which loosely represent plant forms such as vines, with leaves or flowers attached. Scrollwork is a term for some forms of decoration dominated by spiralling scrolls, today used in popular language for two-dimensional decorative flourishes and arabesques of all kinds, especially those with circular or spiralling shapes.

Scroll decoration has been used for the decoration of a vast range of objects, in all Eurasian cultures, and most beyond. A lengthy evolution over the last two millennia has taken forms of plant-based scroll decoration from Greco-Roman architecture to Chinese pottery, and then back across Eurasia to Europe. They are very widespread in architectural decoration, woodcarving, painted ceramics, mosaic, and illuminated manuscripts (mostly for borders)." - (en.wikipedia.org 09.04.2021)

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Die Wappen des Herzogtums Bayern und der PfalzCOSMVS MEDICES MAG. DVX ETRVRIAE I [Bildnis des Cosimo I. de Medici]Maximilian König von BöhmenFamaGaspard de ColignyHeinrich Julius, Herzog zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg
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