Analysis of ornament. The characteristics of styles: an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art; being an outline of a course of sixteen lectures on that subject, originally prepared for the government schools of design in the years 1848, 1849, 1850 (1856)
Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877, Finden, A, F., A. F, Halliday, G, Hutton, M. M, Mateaux, G, Rees, M. R, S., H. M, Sheldrick, E, Sparling, H. M, Swallow, Jane F, Wheeler, S. A · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 119
ocketed pinnacles, complicated mouldings, the columns clustered, 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 Church. The so-called tooth, or dog's-tooth, the most characteristic ornamental detail of the previous pointed style, the Transition, occurs comparatively rarely in the Early English, and in the early specimens only, and considerably varied in detail. This orna- ment was probably in…
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