Decorative Leadwork (Shire Album)

P.M.Sutton- Goold

ISBN 10: 0747800820 / ISBN 13: 9780747800828

Published by Shire Publications., United Kingdom, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Decorative Leadwork (Shire Album)
• Publisher: Shire Publications., United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747800820
• ISBN 13: 9780747800828
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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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.

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.