Home (Ball flower)
Home  
 
 
Home » Architecture » Ball flower


 

Ball flower

Architecture BallBallflower

ball flower - three leaves embracing a ball; 14th century Gloucester English design; also called "bell flower".

 


Ball flower : An ornamented ball sculpture surmounted in the petals of a flower.
Bar tracery : The dominant class of Tracery consisting of decorative patterns formed from stone bars..

The enrichment of the lights with cusping gave additional beauty to them, took away the hard wiredrawn effect of the mouldings, and formed openings of great variety; in some of the windows of the Decorated period the ball flower and other foliage is ...

See also: Crocket, Tracery, Cathedral, Ball, Decorated