Egg-and-dart, also known as egg-and-tongue, egg-and-anchor, or egg-and-star, is an ornamental device adorning the fundamental quarter-round, convex ovolo...
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tongue" referred to, also known as egg-and-dart, egg-and-anchor, or egg-and-star, refers to alternating egg and V-shapes enriching the surface of the concave...
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egg and dart, and various types of scrollwork. Geometric, typically repeated: Meander, palmette, rosette, gul in Oriental rugs, acanthus, egg and dart...
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Ionic order (section Columns and entablature)
stylobate or platform while the cap is usually enriched with egg-and-dart. The ancient architect and architectural historian Vitruvius associates the Ionic...
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furniture mounts, and decorative inlays such as stamped-brass banding with egg-and-dart, diamond, or Greek-key patterns, or individual shapes such as stars or...
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tongue-like or pointed leaf shapes, which are grooved and sometimes turned upward at the tip, and "egg and dart" moulding which alternates ovoid shapes with narrow...
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(right above the egg-and-dart) on the Erechtheion, Athens, Greece, unknown architect or sculptor, 421-405 BC Ancient Greek leaf-and-dart on a gorytos, 400-336...
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Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak (category Buildings and structures completed in the 4th century BC)
band of ornamentation contains an egg-and-dart pattern of Hellenistic style while others display stripes, dentation, and imagery that may have had specific...
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moulding and found beneath the abacus of the Doric capital or decorated with the egg-and-dart pattern below the Ionic capital Egg-and-dart: egg shapes alternating...
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his printed edition of Vitruvius (1511), he showed the capital with an egg and dart enrichment that belonged to the Ionic. The "most rustic" Tuscan order...
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