What is egg dart molding?

Egg-and-dart is a repetitive design that today is most often found on molding (e.g., crown molding) or trim. The pattern is characterized by a repetition of oval shapes, like an egg split lengthwise, with various non-curved patterns, like “darts,” repeated between the egg pattern.

What is an egg and dart cornice?

Egg and Dart is one of the most distinctive classical cornice styles. Prominent on cornice for millennia the pattern consists of oval shapes closely set with alternating vertical arrows, darts or anchors, typically moulded or carved in bas-relief.

Why is it called egg and dart?

Egg-and-dart: The ancient Greeks alternated the egg shape with the arrow shape to symbolizes nothing less than life and death. Found in ancient ruins, this classic pattern still shows up carved in wood, stone or plaster on crown moldings, column capitals, and mantels.

What period is egg dart molding?

The egg and dart ornamentation is a common feature of Classical architecture, used especially to decorate a cornice. This example comes from the 5th century BCE Temple of Apollo on Delos.

What is Cyma Reversa?

Noun. cyma reversa (plural cymae reversae or cymæ reversæ) (architecture) A cyma (moulding) convex in its upper part, and concave in its lower part.

What is egg and dart decoration?

Egg-and-dart, also known as egg-and-tongue, egg and anchor, or egg and star, is an ornamental device adorning the fundamental quarter-round, convex ovolo profile of moulding, consisting of alternating details on the face of the ovolo—typically an egg-shaped object alternating with a V-shaped element (e.g., an arrow.

What is ogee molding?

An ogee molding is an s-shaped profile consisting of two tangent radii semicircular arcs. We utilize the convex portion of one semicircle and the concave section of the other, creating an S-shaped curvature.

What are Greek Mouldings?

The two types of molding developed by the Greeks, and still in use today, are the cyma recta, with an outward S shaped curve, and the cyma reversa, with an inward S curve. These were used primarily under the main gables of a temple roofline while rounded moldings, such as the astragal, appeared on the flat surfaces.