Decorative Leadwork: 249 (Shire album) - Softcover

Goold, P.M.Sutton-

 
9780747800828: Decorative Leadwork: 249 (Shire album)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0747800820 ISBN 13: 9780747800828
Publisher: Shire Publications, 1990

Synopsis

Decorative leadwork is an unsung craft tradition with its origins in the distant past. A simple, hardly changing process of manufacture by hand, using sheet lead and carved moulds, has long continued. Applied designs with floral, zoomorphic or human forms are rarely repeated in entirety. Similar but seldom identical designs and legends can be found in numerous artefacts, large and small, fromt he Roman era to the twentieth century, including Roman water tanks, Saxon caskets, twelfth-century fonts, papal bull seals, tokens of secular or religious significance and quaint roof embellishments. Ornate lead rainheads have survived from Tudor times to the present day and decorative leadwork, both free-standing and applied, continues to be conserved or replenished by craftsmen and artists today in response to aesthetic needs.

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About the Author

Mrs P. M. Sutton-Goold has contributed to professional journals and has been an active member of the Historical Association. She has written articles on decorated lead cisterns.

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Publisher
Shire Publications
Publication date
1990
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0747800820
ISBN 13 
9780747800828
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
32