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Banded rustication has only the horizontal joints emphasized. The faces may be flat, but can be diamond-faced, like shallow pyramids, vermiculated, with a stylized texture like worm-casts, and glacial, ...
The three levels of the main body of the pavilion are similarly adorned. Everything from aedicules to banded rustication.
this seems a strange use of the term, rustication more usually describes the form of neat V - shaped (sometimes square) grooving of the joints which emphasises the face of the block. Sometimes simply referred to as "sunk joints". Banded rustication ...
 See also: Rustication, Architecture, Masonry, House, Balustrade
  
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