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Pedestal (from French piedestal, Italian piedestallo, foot of a stall) is a term generally applied to the support of a statue or a vase.
Pedestal - In classical architecture, the base supporting a column or colonnade; also, more loosely, the base for a statue or any superstructure.
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PEDESTAL An architectural support or base, as for a column or statue.
PEDIMENT A low-pitched gable over porticos, doors, windows, etc.
Pedestal
Tall, narrow base which supports a statue, lamp, vase or any decorative object. Usually treated with moldings at the top and a base block on the bottom. Without moldings it is called a plinth.
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Pedestal
the base of a column, statue, vase, or other upright work of art.
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Pedestal
A support or base, such as for a column or a sculpture.
Pediment
A wide, low-pitched gable surmounting the façade of a building. It is formed at the end of a building by the sloping roof and the cornice.
Pedestal (c/f plinth, base) - A sub-structure below the base of a column (to give extra height, without modifying the proportion, or as the end of a balustrade, or of a statue, or vase.
PEDESTAL
Support block under the base of a column.
PEDIMENT
Triangular projection from a roof or from the top of a door or window.
Pedestal
In classical architecture columns may sit on a pedestal, usually having a square die, a base and cornice.
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A low pedestal, either round or rectangular, set up by the Romans for various purposes such as military or milestones, boundary posts. The inscriptio...
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Pillar or pedestal of bellied form. Balusters: vertical supports of this or any other form, for a handrail or coping, the whole being called a balustrade. Blind balustrade: the same applied to the wall surface.
Exterior: Pedestal urns
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Exterior: Eaves, cornices, and facade emphasizing horizontal lines
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Plinth: a pedestal supporting a column
Portico: a roofed porch or walkway supported by columns ...
acroterium - a pedestal for a statue or similar decorative feature at the apex, or at each of the lower corners, of a pediment.
Die
- the body of a pedestal, between the base and the cornice. Also refers to the squared end of a turned baluster but is now most commonly used to describe the block ending a parapet or balustrade or forming a structural division within it.
[See stabilise] pedestalA Pedestal is a block used as a stand for a vase, an urn or a statue. penjingPenjing is the Chinese word for a tray garden (the word came into Japanese as 'bonsai').
Trough type can be set in ranges, while washing fountains have a circular pedestal bowl.
Above Ground Level- Higher than ground level, particularly with reference to the superstructure, and to work after a building is out of the ground.
They are sometimes of elaborate form and often designed as a pedestal carrying a lamp or statuette, or they may be carried up to form part of some ornamental framing around the staircase.
The Statue of Liberty was assembled on a pedestal designed by American architect Richard Morris Hunt. The statue and pedestal were officially completed in 1886.
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cap: the topmost order of the pedestal in a classical order.
caisson: see coffer.
capital: the uppermost part of a column, usually carved with abstract or figural ornament.
Dado - In classical architecture, the portion of a plinth or pedestal between the base and cornice; also called a die.
Dentil - A small square block used in series in Ionic, Corinthian, Composite, and more rarely Doric Cornices.
An elevated plinth or pedestal bearing a statue, generally raised above the substructure. See also acroterion.
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The style, which was also widely billed as the "California bungalow" by architects such as Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene, featured overhanging eaves, a low-slung gabled roof, and wide front porches framed by pedestal-like tapered ...
in staircase balusters derived from Classical columns, the member equivalent to the sub-base below the column, and placed between it and a shaped pedestal.
Lantern
a raised structure on a dome, glazed to admit light or ventilation.
Through the work of several Lotharingian goldsmiths -sometimes five, sometimes seven - we were able to have completed, in barely two years, the pedestal adorned with the four evangelists, the pillar upon which the sacred image stands, ...
plinth a block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, or statue is based; also the bottom course of stones supporting a wall -- the plinth course.
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