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A crest in the shape of a triangle on the top of a chair can be described as a pediment ...
cresting:
an ornamental ridge, as on top of a wall or roof
crockets:
an ornamental device, usually in the form of a cusp or curling leaf placed along the outer angles of pinnacles and gables ...
Cresting -- Decoration applied along roof ridges generally consisting of ornamental metal.
Dentils -- A row of small tooth-like blocks in a classical cornice.
Doric Order -- A classical order with simple, unadorned capitals.
CRESTING Roof cresting is a lacy decorative fencing made of wrought iron, rimming the edge or peak of a roof, often seen in Second Empire (Mansard) style buildings.
crest - ornamental work forming the top of a wall used for decorative purposes (Hardware Store)
decorative half-timbering - non-structural timbers placed on brick or stucco walls ...
Cresting The top line or surface of a structure.
Crown molding A molding where the wall and ceiling meet; uppermost molding along furniture or cabinetry.
Cupola A small, dome-like structure, on top of the house.
Cresting - A decorative fence-like ornament on the ridge of a roof.
Cupola - A small dome, a rounded roof on a circular or polygonal base crowning a roof or turret. Also, a small, often squarish tower on a roof.
Cresting
A highly decorative top border on a screen, wall or roof, often constructed of metal.
Cupola ...
Crest or cresting - An ornamental finish along the top of a screen, wall, or roof, usually decorated and sometimes perforated.
cresting A decorative rail, or a row of finials, or another feature at the top of a building, often along the ridge of the roof.
Crest:
Crockets:
A distinctive Gothic motif formed of floral and leaf ornamentation. Primarily used on spire and pinnacle sculpture.
Cresting - Decoration along the ridge of a roof. Usually perforated cast - or wrought iron or terra-cotta.
Crimped Wire - Wire formed with regular intermittent undulations.
Crests were used to identify both the owners of buildings and the professions that were practiced within buildings.
cresting A decorative element, frequently of iron, usually located at the peak or edge of a roof.
Cresting - Line of ornamentation finishing a roof
Cupola - A cup-shaped cap over a structure; often found on carriage houses
Cyclopean Block - Rock faced blocks often used in foundations ...
Crest: The apex of the glacis, either formed by the parapet of the covered way, or where the glacis meets the top of the counterscarp. Also known as a ridge.
RIDGE CRESTING
Ornament along a roof ridge.
RISER
Vertical part of a stair step.
Regimental crests such as the coat of arms for the U.S. Military Finance Corp.
Product logos, such as the symbol for Vauxhall automobiles
Lawn ornaments and garden decorations
Amulets, talismans, and jewelry ...
ACHIEVEMENT: a complete armorial device including besides a shield, perhaps a helm, crest, wreath supporters and motto, etc. AISLE: a lateral division of a nave, chancel or transept, separated off by an arcade.
Achievement A combination of shield, helmet, crest etc.
Adorsed When animals and other changes are positioned on a shield back to back (also endorsed, indorsed)
Affronty When a charge is shown facing the front. E.g.
At St Michael's, Coventry, the lower part of the octagonal spire is made vertical with a battlemented cresting round it.
metal roof cresting
broken pediment on windows
window: large pane surrounded by smaller panes or blank lower pane with patterned pane above
dominant decorative chimney
classical one story columns or turned spindles porch supports ...
Eloy --together with the smaller ones--- and that incomparable ornament commonly called the 'Crest' are placed upon the golden altar, then I say sighing deeply in my heart: "Every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the topaz, ...
Expressionism in music, which crested between the two world wars, gave voice to the anxieties, inner terrors, and cynicism of human life in the 20th century through emotionally intense, musically complex, and carefully structured works.
Chapman Avenue, now called the Ivycrest Montessori Private School; the John Hetebrink House (1914) at 515 E. Chapman Avenue; the Elephant Packing House (1924) at 201 W.
There are a number of other identifying features which may or may not have been used, such as, roofing materials with decorative patterns of color and textures; iron cresting above the upper cornice; arched windows; ...
Crest - a term often wrongly used, it is the device which sits on top of the coronet.
Furs - the patterns used to provide a background on the shield.
Ordinaries - bold geometric patterns such as chevrons placed on a shield.
sometimes includes decorative iron cresting on roof tops
sometimes features projecting centre towers and one or second storey bay windows
QUEEN ANNE REVIVAL c. 1885 to 1900 ...
an ornamental architectural crest on top of a Maya temple.
Rosette
circular stylization of a rose.
Ante-fixae (from Latin antefigere, to fasten before), the vertical blocks which terminate the covering tiles of the roof of a Greek temple; as spaced they take the place of the cymatium and form a cresting along the sides of the temple.
Indonesia; Java; Singapore
Further Reading
G. Haidar, 'On the crest of the hill: The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization. Kuala Lumpur', Arts and the Islamic World 21: 14-18, 1992.
BrattishingOrnamental crest, often formed of leaves, flowers or miniature battlements, common in late medieval English architecture.Breastshot water wheelOne with water fed on to the wheel at mid-height, falling and passing beneath.
 See also: Architecture, House, Ornament, Cornice, Cresting
  
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