Don Mills, Ont. : Southam-MacLean Publications · leaf 113
ys—eitherwith a curved abacus and the volutes standing- dia-gonally when viewed from the front, or the caps maytake an oblong; form. The curved abacus is the mostgraceful form for woodwork, and the one g;enerallyemployed by high-class cabinet makers and joiners.The curve of the abacus may be… … IN WOOD -.-LOWER D.AMtreR --> Fig. 5 this Order the column is 10 diameters high ; the lowerdiameter, therefore, measures exactly 4 in. The capi-tal is 1 + 1-7 D high, 1-7 of which is taken up by thecurved abacus, and the bell is divided into three equalparts fas shown on Fig. 4). The Corinthian…
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