PLATE 11 341

The lower compartment of the Plate represents a door-head belonging to a small house of the thirteenth century Gothic, in the Campo Santa Margherita. The central shield, with its hovering angel and supporters, is cut out of one piece of stone; the rest of the tympanum is formed by small squares of cast brick, enclosed by narrow bars also of brick. There are seven patterns used for the squares, which I shall give on a larger scale in the second volume;¹ and they are so arranged by the builder, that whichever way the courses of them are read-laterally or upwards-two similar patterns shall never be in juxtaposition; and that no regular arrangement or recurrence of pattern in any definable disposition shall be traceable. At least I can myself discover none-the reader may try-every pattern in the drawing being in its proper place. The lintel and jambs of the door are of marble, and have Byzantine mouldings, correspondent to those of the doors of St. Mark’s. It is very possible they may be older than the brickwork. Their sections will be given in the proper place.²

¹ [These, however, were not given.]

² [See figure 24 in Plate 9 and figure 11 in Plate 10 of Stones of Venice, vol. iii. above, p. 281, where the house is called “the Chess house.”]

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