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 43
the foliage on each side of the centre. The left hand sideappears to represent the uncurling fronds of a fern. The lower example has a wonderfullypowerful crochet, evidently taken also from the fern tribe. The arrangement in the centrewith the double crochets and foliage below them is particularly… … * Compare the foliage with Fig. 7, page 6. 34 ENGLISH MEDIEVAL FOLIAGE. full, and appears to follow more closely the Classic type, as seen in the small Capital,Plate 14, already mentioned, from the South-East Transept, and woodcut, Fig. 35, from one of the large Capitals in the choir. 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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