Examples of English medieval foliage and coloured decoration, taken from buildings of the twelfth to the fifteenth century: with descriptive letterpress (1874)
Colling, James Kellaway · London, The author [etc.] · leaf 58
as in the lower examples on the same Plate. The Early English triple leaves are supposed to have been taken from the WaterAvens, anciently called the Herba Benedkta, or Holy Herb, the leaves of which consistof three slightly serrated round lobes, as Fig. 36. They are divided, in the olderexamples,… … adopted without following any particular example. No. 4, Plate 20, from a Capital in the Galilee Porch, Ely Cathedral, consists of a three-foldarrangement of triple leaflets. Plate 30 contains twoother Capitals from the same porch. In the lowerCapital and in the centre crochet of the upper…
Decoration and ornament · Church decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Mural painting and decoration
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