This incised brass tray was described by its owner as a Benares tray, but it is thought the scalloped cavetto concave moulding and figural decoration mean it is more likely the work of the Jaipur school of art in Rajasthan, India, dating from 1890-1900. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The structure, designed by John B. Jervis, had blank walls, huge central and corner pylons, and a blank cavetto cornice, a concave bracket that lines the edge of many ancient Egyptian temples and facades. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The ornamentation on the bosses of the roof, and in the cavetto below the windows, and round the great arches from the choir aisles, is very varied. ❋ W.D. Sweeting (N/A)
In the crown cavetto of the cornice is an Egyptian winged globe, entwined with serpents, emblematical of time and eternity; and on the faci below is engraved the following line: -- ❋ Various (N/A)
In the spaces between the shafts of the middle arch, but not of the others, are crockets for the whole height, and the innermost cavetto is entirely filled with dog-tooth ornament. ❋ W.D. Sweeting (N/A)
Then there were two things which he noticed before any other -- the bow of that vast Norman arch which spanned the opening into the south transept, with its lofty and over-delicate roll and cavetto mouldings; and behind it the head of the ❋ John Meade Falkner (1895)
One of the most distinctive mouldings is the _cavetto_, a wide shallow hollow in the centre of a group of mouldings. ❋ Unknown (1892)
Gateways like those of the temples on a smaller scale, the cavetto cornice on the walls, and here and there a porch with carved columns of wood or stone, were the only details pretending to elegance. ❋ Unknown (1890)
The ancient Persian use of columns was almost entirely abandoned, but doors and windows were still treated with the banded frames and cavetto-cornices of Persepolis and Susa. ❋ Unknown (1890)
A terraced pyramid supported an altar or shrine to the southwest of the palace; at the west corner was a temple, the substructure of which was crowned by a cavetto cornice showing plainly the influence of Egyptian models. ❋ Unknown (1890)
Where they appeared externally they were crowned with a simple cavetto cornice, its curved surface covered with colored flutings alternating with _cartouches_ of hieroglyphics. ❋ Unknown (1890)
The doors and windows had banded architraves or trims and cavetto cornices very Egyptian in character. ❋ Unknown (1890)
It forms an astragal under the cavetto cornice and runs down the angles of the pylons and walls. ❋ Unknown (1890)
They are now recognized to be debased imitations of late Greek work of the third or second century B.C. They have Egyptian cavetto cornices and pyramidal roofs, like many Asiatic tombs. ❋ Unknown (1890)
In front, a king with a sword in his right hand points to a handkerchief embroidered and fringed, with a head on it, carved on the cavetto of the abacus. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
German grammarian classes the powers of prepositions; and under this absolute, irrefragable authority, we are to begin to work; admitting not so much as an alteration in the depth of a cavetto, [171] or the breadth of a fillet. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
A bold but shallow cavetto or hollow cornice moulding is frequently carried along the wall just under the parapet. ❋ Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1846)
They approximate more nearly, in section and appearance, those of the thirteenth than those of the fifteenth century, but the members are generally more numerous than in those of the former style; quarter-round, half, and tripartite cylinder mouldings, often filleted along the face and divided by small cavetto mouldings, sometimes deeply cut, are common. ❋ Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1846)
A large and bold but shallow hollow moulding or cavetto, in which, when forming part of a horizontal fascia or cornice, flowers, leaves, and other sculptured details are often inserted at intervals, is a common feature; and such moulding, without any insertion, is frequent in doorway and window jambs. ❋ Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1846)
In decorative work we often meet with the ball-flower, one of the most characteristic ornaments of the style, consisting of a ball inclosed within three or four leaves, and sometimes bearing a resemblance to the rose-bud, inserted at intervals in a cavetto or hollow moulding, with the accompaniment, in some instances, of foliage; a four-leaved flower, inserted in the same manner, is also not uncommon. ❋ Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1846)
