Illustrated Architecture Dictionary ......................... Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary
Illustrated Architecture Dictionary .........................
Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary
Tracery
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Architecture1. A pattern of interlacing lines - esp. one in a stained glass window - often made of wood, stone or cast iron.
2. Any fine lacy pattern resembling thisFound in fanlights.
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In Gothic and Gothic Revival Architecture Tracery is the stone framework in the head of Gothic windows, formed by a continuation of the mullions, bent, as it were, into ornamental designs.. Tracery is geometrically constructed building ornament such as a foil found in the upper part of Gothic rose windows. Tracery was especially typical in Gothic Revival. Patterns formed in tracery: Trefoil ... Quatrefoil ... Cinquefoil ... Sexfoil ... Multifoil |
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Types of Tracery Bar tracery: A pattern formed by interlocking bars of stone within the arch of a Gothic window. Blind tracery: Tracery adorning a wall or panel but not pierced through Branch tracery : A form, of Gothic tracery in Germany in the late 15th and early 16th cent; made to imitate rustic work with boughs and knots. Fan tracery / fanwork: Tracery on the soffit of a vault whose ribs radiate like the ribs of fan. Net (reticulated) tracery: Gothic tracery consisting mainly of a netlike arrangement of repeated geometrical figures.
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FurnitureAlso found in furniture, including lamps, chandeliers.
Examples from Buffalo:
- Illustration above: St. Paul's Cathedral Stained glass window
- 479 Delaware Ave., Midway Fanlight
- Wicks House Transom windows
- St. Louis Church Stained glass window
- Williams-Pratt House Leaded glass window
- Alexander Main Curtiss House Leaded glass windows
- Church of the Advent Stained glass window
- St. John's Grace Episcopal Interior wood
- St. Frances de Sales RC Church Stained glass window
- Hellenic Orthodox Church of the Annunciation Stained glass window
- Dr. Charles Cary House, 340 Delaware Ave. Leaded glass window
- Thomas J. McKinney House Wooden built-in bookcase
- Plymouth Methodist Church / Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum Five-lancet traceried window
- Saints Peter and Paul RC Church, Hamburg Twoe-lancet traceried window
Other examples:
- St.-Denis Abbey, Paris, France Stained glass windows
- Church of St. Mary (Kosciol Mariacki), Cracow, Poland Stained glass window
- Furniture: Back of hall chair - Winterthur Museum
