Molding (decorative)
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Molding is a strip of material with various profiles used to cover transitions between surfaces or for decoration. It is traditionally made from solid milled wood or plaster, but may be of plastic or
Decorative plaster moldings and coving in a late Victorian town house in South Wales.
Moldings from 1728 Table of architecture in the Cyclopedia
Ogee
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An ogee is an object, element, or curve—often seen in architecture and building trades—that has a serpentine or extended S shape. Ogees consist of a double curve, the combination of two curves that, a
Molding (decorative)
…When the concave part is uppermost, it is called a cyma recta but if the convex portion is at the top, it is called a Cyma reversa (See diagram at Ogee.) When crowning molding at the entablature is of the cyma form, it is called a cymatium. Dentils: Small blocks spaced evenly along the bottom edge of…
Gothic ogee arch from the 1300s, over a tomb effigy in recess, in St. Mary the Virgin, Silchester, in the United Kingdom.
An unorthodox ogee arch in Kilfane Church, Ireland (13th century)
Ogee clock, framed with ogee moulding.