Artists throughout history have played with patterns and fantastic forms in all media, imitating, adapting, and translating them from one context to another, from drawings and prints to frames, ceramics, furniture, architecture, and other specialized forms. In this installation, more than 40 prints and drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery’s collection displaying three centuries of European ornament are presented alongside three musical instruments on loan from the Yale School of Music. Together, these works offer a brief look at the migration of motifs over great distances and sometimes long stretches of time—revealing how ideas explored on paper might end up pasted onto the lids of harpsichords, painted onto soundboards, and displayed in the banded marquetry of pianos.