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 72

An illustration from Examples of English medieval foliage and coloured decoration, taken from buildings of the twelfth to the fifteenth century: with descriptive letterpress, 1874, leaf 72 — in a line. This is the earlier indication of that conventional mode inthe treatment of foliage, which became so marked in the square Roses and bosses of thefifteenth century. We may perceive this inclination for the square form again, in theelaborate bosses or knots of foliage, from the cornice of… … Fig. 52. DECORATED. 53 (Nos. 4 and 6, Plate 59), very elegantly arranged, from Bishop Hothams Shrine, in theChoir of Ely Cathedral. These are of rather earlier date than the examples from theLady Chapel. No. 4 is an arrangement of the Hawthorn, and No. 6 consists of a verybeautiful design of five…

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