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 39
iodoften contain foliage which is round-lobed and triple,indicating its being the precursor of the more perfectEarly English foliage. An example of this is seen inthe Capital (Fig. 31) from the South transept of OxfordCathedral, but more particularly in the large Capital givenin the upper portion… … Fig 31. 30 ENGLISH MEDIAEVAL FOLIAGE. a decided similarity to the forms of the foliage from Oxford. There is now but insufficientevidence to show how gradually this transition took place, but the foliage in the Cathedralat Oxford, exemplifies very clearly some portion of this change. The Capitals…
Decoration and ornament · Church decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Mural painting and decoration
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