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 56
les are given at Plate 45.The arrangement of the Water Newts, with their tails interlacingand ending in Hawthorn foliage is remarkably good. Where therewas not sufficient room in the spandril to develop the whole form ofthe leaf, the artist has boldly allowed the moulding to cut across it.Plate 44… … EARLY DECORATED, OR GEOMETRICAL. IT are some of the earliest examples of crockets after the crochet, or turned-over form, hadbeen abandoned for the upright form. At the intersections of the arch mouldings, abovethe Capitals, there are ornaments, which conceal the junction of the mouldings,…
Decoration and ornament · Church decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Mural painting and decoration
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