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                                                                      	No 142, 143, 155, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 167
                                                                      
                                                                      	             ST MARKS  SCREEN
                                                                      	stiff and less graceful, it has finished smooth mouldings
                                                                      and statues above in finish and classicalism far in advance
                                                                      of the Judgment of Solomon at the Canta angle;  and all
                                                                      this with infallible date 1384.  Its capital if not gilded
                                                                      would be wonderful.  They are crisp, fanciful, finished,
                                                                      cut clear in most daring, but in effective ways, and all
                                                                      different, but they are bad in composition and effect.
                                                                      Not more luxuriant but cramped and ungraceful.
                                                                      The same screen is carried - further back across the dark
                                                                      choir aisles - and attached to it is a little balustrade
                                                                      whose date would be invaluable to me, facing that of Ducal
                                                                      palace balcony - No 142 gives from A to B the real height
                                                                      of one of its panels at D section of panel bar, at E the
                                                                      tracery bar, showing depth of the inlaid black marble the
                                                                                  panelling being red, which describes the foils, all these
                                                                      real size - G. the plinth on top of all reduced, while No
                                                                      143 was actually traced on the sharp ridge of the tracery 
                                                                      base.

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