modillion

• Albert Sherwood built this house with its distinctive modillion cornice on land he bought in 1913.
• The familiar classic console or modillion is an example: although in general contour it is well adapted to its function as a supporting bracket, embedded in, and projecting from a wall, yet the scroll-like ornament with which its sides are embellished gives it the appearance of not entering the wall at all, but of being stuck against it in some miraculous manner. —  The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture
• Though the first designers of the modillion were probably Greeks, it must, nevertheless, be taken as really a Roman device, worthily completing the essentially Roman Corinthian order. —  A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
• The Corinthian order appears here complete with its modillion cornice, but the crispness of the detail and the fineness of the execution are Greek and not Roman. —  A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
• Over the arched window behind the ten Melchisedec pulpits, and just beneath the vertical modillion which forms the keystone of the ornamental wooden arch, is the text, "Holiness unto the Lord." —  Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science

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