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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 333

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ich, as in France, the flowers and foliage are applied to the architecturein wreaths and hunches, as in tlie re-markable doorways of Southwellchapter-house {cir. 1294; Fig. 31.5).Foliage is scanty in Perpendicularwork, and the mechanical form of theTudor rose (Fig. 319) is the mostcharacteristic… … Fig. 317. Crocket,Wells Cathedral. INDUSTRIAL AND ACCESSORY ARTS Figure Sculptuire. Figure sculpture applied to the decoration of build-ings had become almost a lost art during the Dark Ages,

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