An inquiry into the difference of style observable in ancient glass paintings : especially in England: with hints on glass painting . Dorchester Church, Oxfordshire. Souttafleet Church, K^nt THE DECORATED STYLE. 83 to this style, is natural, and it is easy to recognise amongstit the leaves of the maple, oak, ivy, hawthorn, and of Cut fitanturd Chuicb, Noitbaraptormhire. many wild plants1. The flower usually represented is therose. The earliest specimens of it are formed of the scal- ? See plates 11, 12, and 13. Cut 7 41, and 44; plates 50, and .r)3 A, andis taken from an example early in t
An inquiry into the difference of style observable in ancient glass paintings : especially in England: with hints on glass painting . Dorchester Church, Oxfordshire. Souttafleet Church, K^nt THE DECORATED STYLE. 83 to this style, is natural, and it is easy to recognise amongstit the leaves of the maple, oak, ivy, hawthorn, and of Cut fitanturd Chuicb, Noitbaraptormhire. many wild plants1. The flower usually represented is therose. The earliest specimens of it are formed of the scal- ? See plates 11, 12, and 13. Cut 7 41, and 44; plates 50, and .r)3 A, andis taken from an example early in the cuts 8 and 9, are from examples of thefourteenth century, as are plates 38, 39, middle of the fourteenth century. 84 THE DECORATED STYLE. loped ornament11, but towards the middle of this periodit becomes five-leaved, and, when single, almost exactlyresembles a full-blown eglantine or common dog-rose°;its leaves are very rarely lipped, or turned over at theirextremities. It is however frequently double-leaved, andoccasionally treble, or quadruple. When only double, andpainted on white glass, the seeds and outer row of leavesare usually stained yellowp. The more conventional ornaments composing the archi-tectural details, the finials and crockets of canopies, &c,are likewise taken from foliage, and drawn in a spirited,liv
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