Analysis of ornament. The characteristics of styles : an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art (1860)
Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 118
sses, crocketed pinnacles, complicated mouldings, the columnsclustered, and the capitals generally round; an extensive applica-tion of foliage, with the trefoil leaf, commonly called the Early-English leaf, as the most characteristic ornament. It is some-times as formal as a clover leaf, at other… … From the Temple Cliurcli. a 82 GOTHIC ORNAMENT. The so-called tooth, or dogs-tooth, the most characteristicornamental detail of the previous pointed style, the Transition,occurs comparatively rarely in the Early English, and in the earlyspecimens only, and considerably varied in detail. This…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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