[M.179L]                                                              [M.179]	Byzantine house near Foscari	179
                                                                      
                                                                      		finally at x and y No 124 are in their place two fragments
                                                                      		of a Byzantine bold flower plinth with vases between its masses
                                                                      		of leaves;  the curling tops have been broken away, but the
                                                                      		flank of a leaf group: with its main curl opposite, and one vase
                                                                      		are at fig 1 and its section fig 2 p 75 l Gothic book.
                                                                      		note that the longest leaf lobe has two incisions, as if to suggest a
                                                                      		kind of rib.
                                                                      		I suppose this leaf cornice to be in its place above the arches;  the
                                                                      		intermediate space having been faced with  marble;  as still the
                                                                      		case in St Marks:  and that this was the real position originally
                                                                      		of all the leaf cornices scattered through the city now almost
                                                                      		always above obtresols and under first floors;  as at the Riva
                                                                      		del Carbon: and in fragments extending nearly to the Loredan
                                                                      		past the Casa Dandolo;  and in the Palazzo Sanuto inside
                                                                      		and outside - and close to the Miracoli in house before described
                                                                      		now supported on an open arcade.
                                                                      		I am a little at a loss whether these carved plinths on the
                                                                      		pure flat cornice of the Fondaco de Turchi be the earlier
                                                                      		form, but this question may perhaps be set at rest by the
                                                                      		plain plinths of the later Byzantine Police house & that
                                                                      		opposite post office:  and by that described No p 76 Gothic
                                                                      		book when the flat plinth in a peculiarly large and
                                                                      		finished development is associated with pure  pointed arches

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