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 86
ed are usually small, about 8 inches long by 4 inches in height. The wall arcade have Roses in vermillion upon the cushion Capitals, and the largeNorman beads in the arches are, in some cases, painted dark green, and spotted with redand grey spots, as if in imitation of some sort of marble. Fig.… … Fig. 71. Fig. 70.with red. The voussoirs are formed in red and black lines, and surrounded by a bandof red eyes and ears on a yellow ground. In a portion of the Ambulatory, where agallery has been erected across the aisle, and which is supposed to have been a ReliquaryChamber, the foliage, from its…
Decoration and ornament · Church decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Mural painting and decoration
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