Quatrefoil or Primrose, Her. A flower or figure having four foils or conjoined leaves.
Quattrocento, It. (lit. four hundred). A term applied to the characteristic style of the artists who practised in the 15th century; it was hard, and peculiar in colour as well as in form and pose. It was the intermediate of that progressive period of art, which, commencing with Fra Angelico, Masaccio, Mantegna, Botticelli, and other celebrated painters, between A. D. 1400 and 1500, reached excellence in the 16th century (the cinque-cento) with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael.
Quaver. A musical note of very short time = half a crotchet.
Fig. 570. Crown of Her Majesty the Queen.
Queen. Crown of Her Majesty. (See Fig. [570].)
Queen-post (anciently prick-post or side-post), Arch. An upright post similar in use and position to the King-post, but rising, not in the centre to the point of the gable, but midway between the wall and the centre.
Queen’s Boots. The interesting fact in English archæology is not generally known, that Her Majesty’s boots are provided for by an annual tax of two shillings (on the whole) upon the village of Ketton in Rutlandshire “pro ocreis reginæ.”
Queen’s Ware. A cream-coloured glazed earthenware of the Wedgwood manufacture at Burslem, 1759–70.
Queen’s Yellow. A colour formed from the subsulphate of mercury.