Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work ... (1907)
American School of Correspondence · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 265
tal carrying the cantedvolute on the angle, are very rare. At the large size in which thisOrder was employed by the Romans, the awkwardness of this angulartreatment of the Ionic Capital undoubtedly became more apparent, andfor this reason they may have avoided its use whenever it was… … Fig. 121. employed it, for the purpose of distinguishing it from the more usualClassic form. The actual treatment of this capital as used byScamozzi himself is shown in Fig. 120. The earlier Roman Ionic Orders were evidently made by Greekworkmen; and the capital from Pompeii shown in Fig. 121…
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