A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 569
oulding in the form ofa chain with Hides; occasionally met with inNorman and Romanesque buildings (twelfthcentury). Cbinbeak Moulding. A moulding commonin Keniiissance and modern work, consisting ofa convex followed below by a concave profile,with or without a fillet below or between, asan inverted… … gen- cral form is rounded convexly, the curses beinginterrupted by a fillet or concave cuiTe makinga sharp edge at about its centre line. Typically,it has a quarter round above, then a horizontalfillet, then a quarter ro\u)d of smaller radius.976 Many modifications of this form tire,…
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