Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 367
athedral (i 130), and added richer elements to theornamentation. The peculiar plain cushion, or cubiccapital, found so much in England in Norman work, wasmeant to be carved or enriched afterwards, but often thewant of funds, or haste and carelessness in after years, werethe causes that left them… … Fig- 3^7.—Romanesque Panel from a Church at Bonn. carving, and some plain ones are found to alternate withothers of the same type, but richly carved, as at Canter-bury and some other places. Sometimes the intentionseems to have been to decorate them with painted orna-ment. At Winchester and…
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