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 84
ellow, and occasionally have red dots inaddition. The diaper, on the right-hand side of Plate 72, is foundupon one of the large Norman piers from which spring thearches that the other diapers are taken from. It consists ofa white four-petalled flower, with a green centre on a redground, the diamond… … * A very similar diaper is found painted on the stone-work of the Norman portion of St. Albans Abbey. f The colours in this and other Plates, as well as in the woodcuts, where practicable, are indicated as in Heraldry—perpendicular lines representing red; horizontal, blue; diagonal from left to…
Decoration and ornament · Church decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Mural painting and decoration
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