In any case, several egg-and-dart fragments from Ionic capitals or other architectural elements are early Imperial in date. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 3] Reference
Between the roof and the friezes, and below them, panels are trimmed in vine leaves, Greek labyrinths and egg-and-dart motifs. From Wordnik.com. [Who’s in the Alexander Sarcophagus?] Reference
Georgia sneaked past the dog and whistled as she took in the Bordeaux-colored walls, egg-and-dart moldings, and cast plaster medallions on the ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [Georgia’s Kitchen] Reference
Cornices of beds and cabinets often had the egg-and-dart molding used on them, and the S-curve is often seen opposed on the backs of settees and chairs. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
While the Lucas and Spielberg Buildings 'deep eaves, tile roofs, belvedere and spacious courtyard hearken back to the vernacular manor houses of Tuscany, there's an unwieldy overlay, with classical egg-and-dart moldings mixing it up with pink, spiral-shafted Romanesque colonettes and Prairie Style-like window muntins. From Wordnik.com. [What George Lucas Wrought] Reference
They have no more effect upon you than the egg-and-dart mouldings on your cornices. From Wordnik.com. [In a Green Shade A Country Commentary] Reference
This design is none other than the so-called "egg-and-dart" pattern of Greek architecture. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference
An egg-and-dart molding extended all around the casing, where the inner door had once hung. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor's Wife] Reference
Many ornamental motives, like the zigzag and the egg-and-dart, for example, had originally a symbolic value. From Wordnik.com. [The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life] Reference
He first sets a good strong architectural moulding of classic egg-and-dart, and leaf, and into this able motive thrusts hooks and rings. From Wordnik.com. [The Tapestry Book] Reference
All the mouldings were carved with the “egg-and-dart,” heart-leaf and anthemion ornaments, so designed as to recall by their outline the profile of the moulding itself. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
The architectural mouldings were nearly always carved, the Greek water-leaf and egg-and-dart forming the basis of most of the enrichments; but these were greatly elaborated and treated with more minute detail than the Greek prototypes. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference
A house glorified within by egg-and-dart mouldings, white enamelled woodwork and much gilding; but a house in which the winter wind howled as in a primeval forest, and which required to be supplied with supplementary padded crimson-velvet doors before the spacious chambers could be made comfortable. From Wordnik.com. [The Lovels of Arden] Reference
Just a few of its notable elements are the wonderful bay on the left side (extra special because the entablature follows the geometry of the bay), the cast-iron railing with its delicate lyre pattern, and the handsome recessed entry flanked by pilasters with egg-and-dart patterned molding on their capitals. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference
You see the great square chimney; the tiny window-panes, six to a sash, some of them turned by time, not into the purple of Beacon Hill but into a kind of prismatic sheen like oil on water; the bit of classic egg-and-dart border on the door-cap; the aged texture of the weathered clapboard; the graceful arch of the wide woodshed entrance, on the kitchen side; the giant elm rising far above the roof. From Wordnik.com. [Penguin Persons & Peppermints] Reference
In Fig. 62 the profile of the abacus is an ovolo on which the egg-and-dart ornament was painted (cf. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Greek Art] Reference
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