Foliate designs cover the grisaille lights of the triforium.
The triforium was begun elaborately, with much foliate decoration, but economy soon forced the architect to adopt a simpler plan.
The capitals of the nave's triforium are said to mark the culmination of Gothic art infoliate design.
To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.
Defn: Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
Some authorities consider the figures inferior to the other decorations: of course in any delineation of the human form, the archaic element is more keenly felt than when it appears in foliate forms or conventional patterns.
The Gothic feeling prevails in this motive, and the foliate forms are full of spined cusps.
The conical cover is also covered with Scriptural scenes, and surmounted by a foliate knob.
The other cruet is carved elaborately with leopards, the first and taller one showing monsters and foliate forms.
Italian feeling is evident throughout, and the wealth of detail in figures and foliate forms is magnificent.
The pierced marble screens and capitals, with their restful combinations of interlacing bands and delicate foliate forms, are nowhere surpassed.
A popular treatment of the stall was the foliate mask; stems issuing from the mouth of the mask and developing into leaves and vines.
The lateral arcades are blind, while the higher central arcading around the door is surmounted with three receding tori resting on crocketed foliate capitals.
The splaying of the doors is adorned with great statues backed up against columns and separated by smaller columns, the capitals of which are connected to a foliate frieze of elegant design.
The bareness of the slab walls was relieved, if not entirely concealed, by the tasteful manipulations of the foliate decorator.
The foot conjectural, decorated in blue on the exterior with a stylized foliateborder made up almost entirely from groups of straight lines.
The wall was decorated with narrow horizontal bands and a wide foliate zone below the everted rim.
However, the band is almost certainly a truncated cone, ornamented with a roughly cutout and scored foliate decoration at the narrow end and plated with a thin band of silver at the other end.
The spaces at the sides and the bottom are filled with elaborate foliate ornaments and engine-turned work.
They possess, however, the same wealth of floral expression, for throughout border and field are sprays of flowers on delicate vines and foliate stalks.
The geometric figures were largely supplanted by foliate forms.
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That a carpet with such perfect balance of every part, such intricacy of elaborate detail, such graceful curves of the heavy foliate leaves should be woven without copying some older pattern or a carefully executed drawing, seems improbable.
In them the foliate forms are more noticeable than in almost any other Caucasian rugs, though they may in a measure be disguised by formal treatment.
Not infrequently the field is covered with broad, irregular scrolls or foliate forms, unlike anything seen in any other class of rugs.
The fields are often artificially divided, by foliate stalks or lance-shaped leaves with serrated edges, into rhomboidal figures that contain mechanically drawn shrubs, palmettes, or flowers.
The diaper patterns that cover the fields of some of them, and the foliate and floral forms that appear in most of them, not only are unlike those of any other groups, but have well-known Chinese elements.
Plate M, are represented two medallions with foliate designs that were largely employed in the early Keen-lung period.
Instead of gracefully flowing lines we find strong rectangular ones; instead of flowers realistically balanced on interlacing, foliate stalks, they are arranged separately in formal rows.
This edging, the foliate scrolls, the soft light tones, and the rather coarse weaving, that leaves the white or sometimes pinkish weft exposed at the back, are characteristics by which these rugs may readily be distinguished.
For each body was erected four forked posts (standing about four feet high), on which were formed a platform of boughs, so as to make a sort of foliate table to support the lifeless clay.
Thus the foliate and florate designs are better carved than the animal forms, and both better than the human.
Thus at Wells the foliate design is relieved by the ungainly figure of a melancholy individual, who, before retiring to rest, pursues an examination into his pedal callosities, or extracts the poignant thorn.
The practical importance of the condition is that, as the foliate papilla is prominent and red, it is liable to be mistaken on superficial examination for a commencing epithelioma.
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