Foliated capital with pineapples

The capital is decorated on all four sides with identical stylized acanthus leaves and fruits.
The lower part of the bowl of the double-capital is covered on all four sides with a pattern of flat leaves, which show clearly incised parallel leaf-nerves splayed round the middle axis.
In the upper part of the bowl each leaf is divided into two grooved, fan-shaped curves, ending with a helix or volute on each side. The capital is thus similar to the foliated capital on the north-west corner of the cloister (W01FL10). But here large elongated fruits are carved in the middle and in the corners; they resemble a pineapple, a fruit alluding to paradise.
An elegantly spiralling tendril runs over the impost and forms volutes; these surround a further tendril, which develops in turn into two palmettes.

pineapple