Ornament (art)
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In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental sculpture and their equivalents in decorative a
Rococo interior of the Wilhering Abbey (Wilhering, Austria), with a trompe-l'œil painted ceiling, surrounded by highly decorated stucco
Chinese flask decorated with a dragon, clouds and some waves, an example of Jingdezhen porcelain
Khmer lintel in Preah Ko, (east of Angkor, Cambodia) style, late 9th century, reminiscent of later European scrollwork styles
18th-century Rococo balcony, Bavaria. The form is itself ornamental, and further decorated in painted plasterwork
Dingbat
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In typography, a dingbat is an ornament, specifically, a grapheme used in typesetting, often employed to create box frames, or as a dinkus. Some of the dingbat symbols have been used as signature mark
Ornament (art)
…Brocade Typographic ornaments: Dingbats Dolmetsch, Heinrich (1898). The Treasury of Ornament. (s:de:Heinrich Dolmetsch…
Poem typeset with generous use of decorative dingbats around the edges (1880s). Dingbats are not part of the text.