Griffe Small 320×316 Medium 640×632 Large 1024×1011 Download Tiff Original 2400×2369 | (965.7 KB) Description "Griffe from Poissy; end of 12th century. GRIFFE. In medieval architecture, from the eleventh to the fifteenth century, an ornament on the bases of pillars, connecting the torus with each angle of the plinth." -Whitney, 1911 Keywords 12th century, architecture, column base, griffe, griffins, knoll, medieval architecture, pillar, plinth, Romanesque, spur, torus Galleries Columns: Bases, Romanesque Architecture Source: William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911) Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman
