Collection: 1770 Remondini

The celebrated Remondini workshop, founded in 1657 and at its height under Giambattista Remondini, supplied decorative sheets to dealers from Lisbon to Saint Petersburg. Designs combining heraldic emblems with garlanded ornament drew on the late Baroque vocabulary of European pattern books, and were used for endpapers, lining boxes, and ornamenting walls in modest interiors that aspired to courtly taste.

They dominated European decorative paper production throughout the eighteenth century, supplying engraved and hand-coloured sheets used for book endpapers, box linings, furniture facings and wall coverings across the Continent. Their floral border designs, often arranged in horizontal bands like this example, drew on the imported Indian chintz textiles then fashionable in Venetian and broader European markets.