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work the oldest examples are those found on the bases in crypts, where they assumed various conventional forms; being, however, close to the eye, the spur soon developed into an elaborate leaf ornament, which in French 13th-century work and in the early English period is of great beauty; sometimes
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A spur consists of a projecting claw, which, emerging from the lower torus of the base, rests on the projecting angle of the square
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refers (Hist. Nat. XXVI. 42) when speaking of the lizard and frog carved on the bases (
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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the spur takes the form of a fabulous animal, such as a
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