Ornamentation Terms Flashcards by Dean Sy

What is a stylized leaf motif evident on the capital of the Corinthian Column?

Acanthus Leaves

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What is an ornamentation based on the honeysuckle flowers and leaves?

Anthemion

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What is a Moorish design of intertwining leaves, flowers, and interlaced branches?

Arabesque

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What is a male figure used as a column?

Atlantes

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What is a board placed at the base of a wall and rests on the floor?

Baseboard

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What is a decorative molding that resembles a string of beads?

Beading

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What is a combination of beads and reels with a ratio of 1:2?

Bead & Reel

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What is the edge of any flat surface that has been cut at a slant to the main area?

Bevel

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What is tortoiseshell, ivory, mother-of-pearl, and metals used as inlay, derived from Andres Charles Boulle?

Boulle

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What is the rounding of an edge?

Half Bullnose

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What is the term for when both the top and bottom edge are rounded?

Full or Double Bullnose

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What are motifs that emulate the letters C and S of the Rococo style?

C & S Scrolls

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What is the form of an unrolled scroll with an oval center having pierced curled edges?

Cartouche

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What is a female figure used as a column?

Caryatid

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What is a concave molding approximating a quarter circle?

Cavetto

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What is a circular decorative molding made of plaster and fixed to the ceiling?

Ceiling Rose

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What is the topmost molding of a dado placed on a wall at the height of a chair back?

Chair Rail or Dado Cap

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What is a slope forming the edge at a 45-degree cut angle?

Chamfer

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What is a pattern consisting of alternating light and dark squares?

Checkerboard

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What is a square block of wood used to form a junction between the sides and head of a strip of door or window trim?

Corner Block

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What is a Gothic ornament leaf or bud-shaped ornament used on the sides of pinnacles?

Crocket

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What is a French term meaning “five leaves,” referring to a pattern resembling a five-leaved clover?

Cinquefoil

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What is a Gothic ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling?

Coffer

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What is a ceiling with coffers?

Coffered Ceiling

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What is a molded projection that crowns a wall, more decorative and elaborate than crown molding?

Cornice

What is a decorative molding at the junction between walls and the ceiling of a room?

Crown Molding

What is an S-shaped curve that begins and ends horizontally, also known as "Tummy"?

Cyma Recta Curve

What is the curve that starts and ends vertically, also known as "Boobs"?

Cyma Reversa Curve

What is a spiral scroll forming the principal characteristic of the Ionic capital?

Volute

What is an all-over or repeating pattern without definite limits?

Diaper Pattern

What is a small square projecting block in a cornice?

Dentil

What is an ovoid-shaped molding forming part of a classical capital?

Echinus

What is a classical molding motif with alternating dart and egg shapes?

Egg and Dart Molding

What is a female head and bust used at the top of a volute?

Espagnolette

What is a string of materials hanging in a curve between two points?

Festoon

What is a divider with a lacy openwork design?

Filigree

What is a narrow flat molding raised or sunk to separate larger moldings?

Fillet

What is a stylized three-petal iris flower tied by an encircling band, used by the royal family of France?

Fleur De Lis

What are parallel concave grooves or channels in a vertical position used to embellish columns, pilasters, or furniture legs?

Flutes

What is a Greek geometric band or border motif consisting of interlocking lines?

Fret or Key Pattern

What are elongated ovoid forms placed in a parallel series and projecting beyond the surface?

Gadroon

What is a pilaster that narrows toward the bottom, capped with a topless female half-figure?

Gaine

What is a grotesque animal or human form used as a waterspout?

Gargoyle

What is a prepared plaster of chalk and white lead used to cast repeating ornamental forms in relief?

Gesso

What is a monster with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle?

Griffin

What is an incongruous combination of monstrous animals and human forms?

Grotesque

What is a band or border running pattern of interlacing circular forms, a circular version of a fret?

Guilloche

What is a wooden lining for interior walls?

Wainscot

What is a tapering pilaster terminating in a head or bust of a male?

Herm

What is a decorative motif of Greek origin resembling a conventionalized fan-like arrangement of petals?

Honeysuckle

What is a panel resembling folded cloth?

Linenfold

What is an alternate name for the conventional diamond-shaped motif?

Lozenge

What is a form resembling a crescent or half-moon?

Lunette

What is a grotesque head or mask?

Mascaron

What is a running ornament consisting of an intricate variety of fretwork?

Meander

What is a highly ornamental turning in two sections?

Melon Bulb

What is an overall pattern of stylized flowers and plants of French origin?

Millefleur

What is the prominent edge of a molding?

Nosing

What is a molding or an arch form composed of two opposing cyma curves?

Ogee or Ogive

What is a variety of brass made to imitate gold or bronze?

Ormolu

What is an ormolu mounted on a surface?

Ormolu Mount

What is a circle or oval containing acanthus leaves in a rosette arrangement?

Patera

What is a boss elongated that hangs down from the intersection of coffers in ceilings or tables?

Pendant

What is a compound of paper pulp mixed with paste or glue to be molded into various shapes?

Paper-mache

What is a horizontal molding near a ceiling from which pictures can be suspended?

Picture Mold or Picture Rail

What is a four-lobed ornamentation?

Quatrefoil

What is a long, semicylindrical stem-like form used to enrich moldings, opposite of fluting?

Reeding

What is a scroll and leaf ornament combined with cartouches or grotesque forms, usually horizontally symmetrical in composition?

Rinceau

What is an ornamental motif formed by a series of leaves arranged around a central point?

Rosette

What is a semi-circular shell with ridges radiating from a point at the bottom, commonly used in Queen Anne and Georgian furniture?

Scallop Shell

What is a conventionalized leaf pattern used to enrich a cyma reversa molding, sometimes called Leaf and Dart Pattern?

Waterleaf

What is a broken pediment with each half shaped in a reverse curve ending in an ornamental scroll?

Scroll Pediment

What is a figure having the head and breasts of a woman, wings of an eagle, and the body of a lion?

Sphinx

What consists of enriched interlacing flat bands and forms, a combination of guilloche and fret?

Strapwork

What is stonework formed in the head of a Gothic window?

Tracery

What is a pattern resembling a tree showing branches, leaves, flowers, and small animals, originating in ancient Assyria?

Tree-of-life Pattern

What is a three-lobed ornamentation resembling a clover?

Trefoil

What is millwork around openings such as windows and doors?

Trim

What is a convex semi-circular molding?

Torus

What is a peculiar pattern of scrollwork consisting of convolved undulations, conventionally imitating a series of breaking wave crests?

Vitruvian Scroll or Wave Pattern

What is a decorative garland of flowers, foliage, or other ornamental material?

Wreath

What are ornamental motifs centered on a large field?

Vignettes

What is a cabriole leg formed like the tarsal joint of the hind leg of a quadruped?

Hock

What is the lower portion of the wall when treated differently from the surface above it?

Dado

What is a parchment roll used as an ornament?

Scroll

Ornamentation Terms Flashcards

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