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This is the corner shaft of the Ducal Palace with the drunkenness of Noah above.
The reference is to the 1st Capital of the Ducal Palace. Series of Capitals of the Lower Arcade.
Notebook M2 p.99 ‘The br. leaves have 7 ribs the L. leaves 5. arranged as at A. and B. p. 7w. St M. The breast leaves instead of nodding over. now bent up and hold the figures in their hollow instead of on their backs while the angle leaves running up with their long straight stems all the way to the abacus, then nod over: and flinging their lowest lobes back and up, so that their central ribs {b and c} take the curve C. p 7w. with their lobes e. f. they just - with the extreme point {reach over to &} touch the correspondent raised lobes of the breast leaves; and with their central lobe they fall back to the bell, as seen in section B.
The 1st. ‘Under the Noah: This remarkable pilaster capital is altogether on this system. It is a pilaster with three bead chamfers and half a shaft, given in section at D. p. 7w. The part a b is the filling up after the fire.’
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