Caryatids

Two caryatids (one seeming to represent a black woman, the other a Caucasian woman) support the structure.
Marjetica Potrc: Max Protetch Gallery by Decter, Joshua / Artforum International
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The caryatids ornament three pilasters that separate the two bays of the building. Along the bases are carved ornaments with stylized volutes. The building shows the point where Beaux-Arts style ends and Art Deco begins.
Brantford Ontario
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Termini Caryatids: female busts or demi-figures or three-quarter figures supporting an entablature or other similar member and placed at the top of termini pilasters.

Caryatids
London
Female figures supporting an entablature; their male counterparts are Atlantes.CasemateVaulted chamber, with embrasures (splayed openings) for defence, within a castle wall or projecting from it.

It can include statues, keystones, gargoyles, pediments, caryatids and atlantes, figures or designs on spandrels and tympana, cornices, brackets, columns and capitals, frieze panels and decorative bricks.

The 17th century Baroque period used contorted caryatids .
Examples from Buffalo architecture
Illustration above: Albright-Knox Art Gallery ...

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