The lip and base have the favorite ovolo moulding; the body has two rows of fluting separated by a transverse band, charged with leaves, and with a swan in the centre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

Finally, attention may be called to the ASTRAGAL or PEARL-BEADING just under the ovolo in Figs. 61, 71.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Greek Art] Reference

The common base moulding resembles in form or contour a quirked ovolo reversed; there are, however, many exceptions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.] Reference

I should prefer however to have only the ovolo of the Abacus carved, and it's cavetto plain, as may be seen in Scamozz Chambray's edition B.II. chapt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to and from Jefferson, 1821 [a machine-readable transcription]] Reference

The ovolo has a convex profile, and is sometimes called a quarter-round; it is enriched with an EGG-AND-DART ornament The spiral roll may be conceived as a long cushion, whose ends are rolled under to form the VOLUTES.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Greek Art] Reference

In the form shown in Fig. 73 we find, first, a row of sixteen simple leaves, like those of a reed, with the points of a second row showing between them; then a single row of eight acanthus leaves; then the scroll-work, supporting a palmette on each side; and finally an abacus whose profile is made up of a trochilus and an ovolo.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Greek Art] Reference

Its distinguishing features are the insertion between ovolo and spiral roll of a torus ornamented with a braided pattern, called a GUILLOCHE; the absence of the palmettes from the corners formed by the spiral roll; and the fact that the channel of the roll is double instead of single, which gives a more elaborate character to that member.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Greek Art] Reference

Keywords: serviced apartment | hong kong | ovolo | swire | shama.    From Wordnik.com.  [FinanceAsia] 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

The general outline and shape of the Norman capital is that of a square cubical mass, having the lower part rounded off with a contour resembling that of an ovolo moulding; the face on each side of the upper part of the capital is flat, and it is often separated from the lower part by an escalloped edge; and where such division is formed by more than one escallop, the lower part is channelled between each, and the spaces below the escalloped edges are worked or moulded so as to resemble inverted and truncated semicones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.] Reference

The ovolo (no. 16) is one of those used by CINNAMVS, who also used the astragalus bead-rows, the bear, Dech. 820 (nos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]] Reference