Cartouche / Cartouch
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An oval shaped ornamental design element usually containing an inscription or date. Label or information surrounded by a border. Often decorative.
Egypt ...
cartouche - a cartridge (usually with paper casing)
cartouch
cartridge - ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun ...
Cartouche
Taken from the French name for a scroll of paper, this is an ornament from the late Renaissance or Baroque era that bears the name of the building's patron on a paper with rolled up edges.
London - England ...
Cartouche - An ornamental panel in the form of a scroll or sheet of paper with curling edges, usually bearing an inscription and sometimes ornately framed.
Cartouche.
A tablet with an ornate scroll frame. Usually of elliptical shape and bearing a coat of arms or inscription, often found above monuments. Many have an indication of a nose and eyes in the top or bottom of the scrollwork.
Cartouche
in Renaissance ornament, a tablet imitating a scroll with ends rolled up, used ornamentally or bearing an inscription or arms.
Chamfer ...
cartouche
an oval tablet with an elaborate scroll-carved frame, used as ornamentation for building moldings, borders, panels, etc.
caryatid ...
cartouche A decorated panel, often curvilinear in form, much like a frame.
casein A water soluble paint in which milk protein (casein) is the binder; also called milk paint.
cartouche: a heraldic panel, generally with curved sides.
caryatid: female figure supporting a capital or entablature.
catenary curve: the curve formed by a chain or rope hanging from two points not in the same vertical line.
Cartouche
an oval or scroll-shaped design or ornament, usually containing an inscription, a heraldic device, or (as in Egypt) a ruler's name.
Carving ...
Cartouche:
A conventionalized shield form used as an ornament.
Casters: ...
Cartouche - A framed panel or tablet, often elaborately decorated, based on the shape of a scroll, developed in the Renaissance.
Casement sash - A window sash, hinged at one side to swing open, usually outwards.
Cartouche - Ornamental panel; oval or scroll-shaped
Casement Window - Window hinged on the side that opens like a door
Clapboard - Long thin overlapping wooden boards placed horizontally on the outside of a building ...
Cartouche Oranmental tablet in the shape of a scroll of paper
Casemate Bomb-proof vault in a curtain wall for cannons
Castellan The governor of a castle or keep
Castellation Another word for battlements.
Exuberance of detail and highly decorated with swags, medallions, cartouches, flowers, and shields
Symmetrical and balanced facades
Flat roofs ...
CarrelCompartment designed for individual work or study.Cartouche
Classical tablet with ornate frame.Caryatids
London ...
The prayer hall of the Great Mosque is a multi-domed unit in the usual Artukid style whilst the minaret is a tall cylindrical tower with elaborately carved cartouches.
Horemheb and Tutankhamun added columns, statues, and friezes - and Akhenaten had earlier obliterated his father's cartouches and installed a shrine to the Aten - but the only major expansion effort took place under Ramesses II some 100 years after ...
Later, about the middle of the 16th century, great coves were formed round the room, which were decorated with cartouches and figures in relief, garlands and swags.
 See also: Architecture, Ornament, House, Classical, Roman
  
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