INDIAN MASK, ST. MARY’S, BEVERLEY.
Occasionally a mask with leaves has the tongue protruding.
LATE ITALIAN FOLIATE MASK, WESTMINSTER.
Perhaps one of the most remarkable masks in Gothic is on another misericorde in the same town, but in St. Mary’s Church; in which the features, the head-dress, the treatment of the ears, are all Indian, while the leaves are those of the palm. This is, perhaps, unique as an instance of Gothic work so nearly purely Indian in its form.
RIPON, late Fifteenth Century.
Sometimes the leaves are much elaborated as in one of the late misericordes of Westminster Abbey; in a few cases the original simplicity is quite lost, and we have, as at Ripon, the mask idea run mad, inverted, and the leaves become a graceful composition of foliage, flower, and fruit.
A rosette from the tomb of Bishop de La Wich, Chichester, has four animal faces in an excellent design.
