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Plate 5: a cartouche with a blank escutcheon at top center, a chimera to either side, their bodies ending in scrollwork and dragon tails, from "Twelve cartouches" (Recueil de douze cartouches)
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Credit linePlate 5: a cartouche with a blank escutcheon at top center, a chimera to either side, their bodies ending in scrollwork and dragon tails, from "Twelve cartouches" (Recueil de douze cartouches). ca. 1640–45. François Collignon. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. CC0.
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