Look up: Egg-and-dart

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   egg and dart
   A repetative decorative motif often used in classical antiquity and copied in the Middle Ages. It consisited of oval (egg-shaped) motifs alternating with dart-like motifs.
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   Egg and Dart
   A repetitive decorative motif often used in classical antiquity and copied in the Middle Ages. It consists of oval (egg-shaped) motifs alternating with dart-like motifs.
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   egg and dart
   See decorative motifs.
   Found on http://www.antique-crafts.co.uk/glossary
   
   
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   egg and dart
   in architecture, design shape used in moldings. It consists of a series of bas-relief ovals alternating with pointed, narrow, dartlike carvings.
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   Egg and dart
   An edge moulding, usually stamped in sections, of ovoid shapes alternating with vertical arrow-like bars. Said to have been derived from shields and spears. Chiefly used during the 16thC and early 17thC it was revived during the 19thC by the vogue for gothicism.
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   egg-and-dart
   [n] - a decorative molding
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   egg-and-dart
   egg-and-anchor noun a decorative molding; a series of egg-shaped figures alternating with another shape
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   Egg-and-dart
   `Egg-and-dart` is an ornamental device often carved in wood, stone, or plaster quarter-round ovolo mouldings, consisting of an egg-shaped object alternating with an element shaped like an arrow, anchor or dart. Egg-and-dart enrichment of the ovolo molding of the Ionic capital is found in Ancient Greek architecture at the Erechtheion and was used by the Romans. Its ovoid shape (the egg) and serrated leaf (the dart) are believed to represent the op...
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