cartouche

 A cartouche (also cartouch) is an oval or oblong design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. It is used[by whom?] to hold a painted or low-relief design.[1] Since the early 16th century, the cartouche is a scrolling frame device, derived originally from Italian cartuccia. Such cartouches are characteristically stretched, pierced and scrolling.

Cartouche on a Neo-Baroque house from Bucharest, Romania

Another cartouche figures prominently in the 16th-century title page of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, framing a minor vignette with a pierced and scrolling papery cartouche.

The engraved trade card of the London clockmaker Percy Webster shows a vignette of the shop in a scrolling cartouche frame of Rococo design that is composed entirely of scrolling devices.

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  • A title plate from a French book, Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util

    Baroque cartouche, with festoons, cornucopias and mascaron, 1645, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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  • an empty shield surmounted by a lion and framed by a lion and a child

    Lion cartouche Stefano della Bella, 1646, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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  • Etching of a cartouche framed by ducks and weeds

    Duck cartouche by Stefano della Bella, 1647, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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  • Design of a cartouche, by Stefano della Bella, 1647, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

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  • Etching of a complex cartouche, by Bernard Turreau, 1716, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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  • Frontispiece for Figures françoises et comiques by Robert Hecquet, 18th century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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  • The Forges of Vulcan, probably by François Boucher, mid-18th century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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  • Cartouche decorated with horns of plenty, an architectural ornament of the Louvre

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  • Cartouche in a pediment of Hala Traian, Bucharest, Romania

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  • Cartouche with a monogram of ZNS, with Neo-Renaissance ornaments, in a Venetian window-like relief, on a house, Bucharest

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  • Neo-Renaissance ornaments above a door: in the center a cartouche, in the D.A. Sturdza House (Cărturești Verona), Bucharest

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  • Cartouche surrounded by floral festoons, Bucharest

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  • Neo-Baroque cartouche-window with a male mascaron, Bucharest

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  • A cartouche above a Neo-Baroque door and a smaller one below, the House of Scientists, Lviv

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  • Cartouche with angels and clouds, above a door, France

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  • Cartouche with a caduceus, on the roof of the Crédit Lyonnais headquarters, Paris

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