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No 142, 143, 155, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 167
ST MARKS SCREEN
stiff and less graceful, it has finished smooth mouldings
and statues above in finish and classicalism far in advance
of the Judgment of Solomon at the Canta angle; and all
this with infallible date 1384. Its capital if not gilded
would be wonderful. They are crisp, fanciful, finished,
cut clear in most daring, but in effective ways, and all
different, but they are bad in composition and effect.
Not more luxuriant but cramped and ungraceful.
The same screen is carried - further back across the dark
choir aisles - and attached to it is a little balustrade
whose date would be invaluable to me, facing that of Ducal
palace balcony - No 142 gives from A to B the real height
of one of its panels at D section of panel bar, at E the
tracery bar, showing depth of the inlaid black marble the
panelling being red, which describes the foils, all these
real size - G. the plinth on top of all reduced, while No
143 was actually traced on the sharp ridge of the tracery
base.
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