The trophy was one of the elements of the Classical tradition that designers of ornament in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries strove to emulate. Originating in ancient Greece, the trophy was initially a collection of arms and armour belonging to a victorious army’s opposing force. After battle, these articles would be collected and piled up or pinned against the trunk of a tree as a warning for other enemy forces. In design, by the time Birckenhultz was creating his engravings around 1600, the trophy was a loose collection of related objects loosely grouped and displayed together, particularly weaponry, but also often musical instruments, fruit and vegetation. These designs therefore refer back to the Classical tradition as well as displaying elements of foreign cultures, whether real or imagined. One design even shows a turbanned head, in a collection of Eastern military objects.