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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 70

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Leaveswere made perfectly square, and, when they were placed one within the other, the innerones were arranged upon the diagonal square, as in Figs. 58 and 66. When leaves werepentagonal, as in the Vine, they were brought to regular forms by either straight or curvedlines, as in Plate 66, or to a… … Fig. 65. Fig. 66. as they are usually called, square roses, such as the examples, Figs. 65 and 66, from AllSaints Church, Evesham. This is one of the most common of all positions for foliage atthis time.

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