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 66
ade within the Chapter-house containsome very beautiful foliage. Two examples are given at Plate 45.The arrangement of the Water Newts, with their tails interlacingand ending in Hawthorn foliage is remarkably good. Where therewas not sufficient room in the spandril to develop the whole form ofthe… … * V. le Dues Dictioniiairc Raisonne de VArchitecture, article Sculpture. EARLY DECORATED, OR GEOMETRICAL. 47 are some of the earliest examples of crockets after the crochet, or turned-over form, hadbeen abandoned for the upright form. At the intersections of the arch mouldings, abovethe Capitals,…
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