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 18
n other churches erected at Constantinople, as in the Churchof St. John, which perhaps is earlier than that of Santa Sophia. Fig. 13 is a portion of aleaf from one of the capitals of St. Johns, taken from Salzenburgs work on the Churchesof Constantinople. It shows a very peculiar form of double… … Fig. 14. Museum, which has angle leaves precisely of the same kind. It appears to be a cast from acapital at Constantinople. A peculiarity in the formation of these leaves, and whichappears to belong to the Byzantine period, is the drawing down of the eye of the leaf, andraying, as it were, without…
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