Early renaissance architecture in England; a historical & descriptive account of the Tudor, Elizabethan & Jacobean periods, 1500-1625, for the use of students and others (1901)
Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred), 1852-1942 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 355
unusualbeauty. Pendants of more or less projection were anothermeans of adding variety and interest to the design (Fig. 167),and they varied in size from a mere excrescence to an elaborateshaft, supported by figures half human, half foliage, whichserved to hang the lamp from. This shaft would only… … 169.—Plaster Frieze from Montacute House, Somerset. with a flowing pattern in low relief, so arranged as to fall intoa more or less symmetrical design. This is by no means ausual form, but there is an example at Burton Agnes, in York-shire, and another, which stands halfway between the twoideas, in…
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