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220 179
BYZANTINE HOUSE NEAR FOSCARI
fourthly at x and y No 124 are in their place two fragments
of a Byzantine bold flower plinth with roses between its
masses of leaves; the curling tops have been broken away,
but the flank of a leaf group: with its main curl oppo-
site, and our vase are at fig 1 and its section fig 2 p 751
Gothic book.
Note that the longest leaf lobe has two incisions, as if to
suggest a kind of rib.
I suppose this leaf cornice to be in its place above the
arches; the intermediate space having been faced with
marble; as still the case in St Marks; and that this
was the real position originally of all the leaf cornices
scattered through the city now almost always above
obtresols and under first floors; as at the Ruin del
Conbon, and in fragments extending nearly to the Loredan
past the Casa Dandolo; and in the Palazo Santo inside and
outside - and close to the Miracolo in house before describ
ed now supported on an open arcade.
I am a little at a loss whether these carved plinths on the
pure flat cornice of the Fondaco de Turchi be the earlier
form, but this question may perhaps be set at rest by
the plain plinths of the later Byzantine Police house
and that opposite post office; and by that described
p 76 Gothic book when the flat plinth is a peculiarly
large and finished development is associated with pure
pointed arches
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