Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work (1912)
American Technical Society · Chicago : American Technical Society · leaf 115
msmost unlikely that this decorative Ordercould have been developed from anything else than a w^oodenprototype, as such a form, executed in stone or marble, wouldseemingly be bound to spHt off under the load of the entablature.The sketch in Fig. 59 shows how this form of cap may possibly havebeen… … CAPITAL Fig. 58. Ionic Capital as Suggested in Assyrian Work. 89 120 STUDY OF THE ORDERS supports, as well as to increase the bearing area of the cokimn—^justas the horizontal mouldings of the base suggest a double structuralpurpose in binding together the bottom of the delicate support,…
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