Note 231 — Chapter IV · OTHER PAVEMENT WORK

This border of waterfowl may possibly allude to the Contrada of the Oca (the Goose) of which Contrada Sta. Caterina was the especial Patroness, she having lived in their ward and their chapel being in her former home.

Note.—The tomb of the Cennini family, before the High Altar in S. Francesco is a degraded seventeenth-century specimen of this kind of work, but it is so debased in taste, and so injured by time, that I hardly like drawing attention to it.