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Bolection moulding
a bold moulding of double curvature raised above the general plane of the framework of a door, fireplace or panelling.
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Bolection Molding A heavy convex molding often surrounding Colonial period fireplaces.

Bolection Mold:
A decorative boldly rounded surface mold, indicative of the Chippendale style.
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BOLECTION MOULDING: a convex moulding which projects beyond the surface it frames, characteristic of joinery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

In England in the 17th century the door panels were raised with "bolection" or projecting mouldings, sometimes richly carved, round them; in the 18th century the mouldings worked on the stiles and rails were carved with the egg and tongue ornament.

If they are formed as part of a stile or rail, they are termed "moulding out of stile", if they fit flush with the surface of the rail or stile, they are planted mouldings, if they wrap around the end of the rail or stile, they are bolection ...

left by the temporary timber framing (formwork) used for casting.Boiseries(French): Panelling or other fitted interior woodwork with elaborate decoration of foliage, etc., used especially in the 17th- to 19th-century France.Bolection ...

See also: Architecture, Moulding, Cornice, Crown, Vault

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