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 63
rs in lieu of other foliage. Again, the aisle buttresses areenriched with long rows of them, and they take the place of crockets to the canopies andpinnacles. Ball-flowers so completely usurp the place of all other foliage, that the largefinials to the principle pinnacles are formed with them, as… … Fig. 53. Fig. 54. variety of the Ball-flower, two examples of which are given, Nos. 6 and 7, Plate 41.The Ball-flower is sometimes connected, when of large size, by a running stem, as inFig. 54, drawn from a fragment, at Great Malvern Abbey Church, Worcestershire. In some cases square, four-leaved…
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