The type of foliage in early English stained glass is somewhat similar to contemporary carved work, but showing more of the
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profile of the leaf, and it has a geometric or radiating arrangement in addition to the spiral forms of foliage.
Early French work (figs. 7 and 8), with its square abacus, differs from the early English, in having less of the spiral arrangement, and a rounder type of leaf, together with the absence of the mid rib, which is so characteristic of contemporary early English Gothic. The plain moulded capitals so prevalent in this country are rarely found in France.
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