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The American house-carpenter; a treatise upon architecture, cornices and mouldings, framing, doors, windows, and stairs. Together with the most important principles of practical geometry (1852)

Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 98

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enclosed the basket with its foliage ; some of which,reaching the tile, turned gracefully over in the form of a volute. A celebrated sculptor, Calimachus, saw the basket thus decorated,and from the hint which it sug-gested, conceived and constructed acapital for a column. This wascalled Corinthian… … CORINTHIAN.

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