Examples of English mediaeval 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 16
points have somewhat of an ogee shape, with a centre rib to each lobe. Theseleaves Mr. Taylor says are the most elegant, which appears to me to be somewhatdoubtful. Fig. 7 is drawn from a cast in the South Kensington Museum, which issaid to be the sheath from which issue the angle scrolls, in the… … Fig. 8. Fig. 9. Capital of the Pantheon, Fig. 8, are rounded or oval, and very slightly pointed. The firstlobe of each main division overlaps the upper, instead of going underneath, as in the formerexamples. This overlapping is seen again carried to excess in the leaf from the Capitalfrom the Arch…
Decoration and ornament · Church decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Mural painting and decoration
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