| 单词 | finial |
| 例句 | An iron finial had pierced through her breastbone, right in the center of her chest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The smooth blue of her chest was unpierced by the iron finial, and her hair was still studded with flowers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The blue girl’s ghost gathered itself and perched, bereft, upon the spearpoint-tip of the projecting finial, just an inch above her own still chest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z One finial turned up in an American collection, and its mate surfaced in Israel, where it was about to be melted down before a Menorah Galleries supplier rescued it. Showcasing Jewish Antiques and Their Stories 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Neighbors refer to this as "The Pineapple House" because of the portico's stylize finial. Find more pineapple-inspired decor. Charming Cottage Curb Appeal Makeover 2014-04-29T14:54:34.867Z Newel posts end in handsome carved finials shaped like poppy heads, one of them violently mutilated by an alcoholic, in the time when this was a Church of England home for inebriates. More than a home 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z Other singular Golconda works include the gilded-copper finials of a palanquin — another recent discovery — and a prayer rug for six, with architectural designs and contrasting patterns creating a niche for each worshiper. Review: ‘Sultans of Deccan India,’ Unearthly Treasures of a Golden Age, at the Met 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z Vermont carvers produced furniture with spiraled legs, fan-shaped inlays, flared crests and spherical finials that were similar to options in New York and Boston. Vermont Furniture, Experimental and Elegant at the Shelburne Museum 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Hamilton’s dining chairs with lyre backs, parlor suite with spiky finials and other possessions ended up in various locations, including the Smithsonian and the Museum of the City of New York. Antiques: Hamilton Grange National Memorial Reopening in Manhattan 2011-09-01T22:05:43Z If replacement is the best option, how difficult is it to do, and where am I likely to find a matching finial? How to repair a damaged finial on a newel post 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z And she created a glam drying rack by hanging chains and bracelets from a drapery rod with finials encrusted with Swarovski crystals. Eight great ideas from the 2015 D.C. Design House 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z In addition to the Rembrandt, there were some unusually esoteric items that were taken as well, like a Chinese gu vessel and a finial off a Napoleonic flag. Netflix's uneven but informative "This Is a Robbery" makes the world's biggest art heist feel stale 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Sassoon and his children bought and also commissioned Jewish ceremonial art, such as two ornate gilt silver Torah finials, each topped with an open palm embossed with prayers. ‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z What a contrast with the published account, written decades later and told in a fabulously ornate style that bristles with finials and is rich with whorls. Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper – review 2012-10-12T21:55:11Z Reinvigorating an Artist’s Fantasy A Victorian minaret with a white crescent finial looms over flat-topped brick town houses on a sleepy side street in the Kensington district of London. Antiques: Leighton House Museum Reopens in London With New D?cor 2010-04-08T21:51:00Z The handle finials are shaped like acorns, spears and apostles, or bear the monograms of unidentified original owners. Antiques: Third-Century Cutlery at Auction; Schoolgirls’ Samplers 2013-05-23T19:54:39Z Place your lampshade atop the harp, and secure with a finial. Done in a Day: Custom Table Lamp 2010-03-25T21:17:00Z Landry and project architect Todd Riley swapped the pseudo-Mediterranean exterior details for a graceful vocabulary of columns and arches, volutes and finials. 2009-12-21T05:00:00Z “Taxonomies” follows, a Judaica display that is essentially a cabinet of curiosities, with dozens of shofars, groggers, and Torah breastplates and finials. A Museum’s Fresh Take on the Whole Megillah 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z He used night lights along the stage rim as footlights, and turned pine cones into finials for a doorway. Antiques: A Fantasy Movie House Is Saved From Extinction 2010-09-16T21:00:00Z Zimmermann browsed antiques shops herself, looking for Chinese jade carvings and Mexican silver filigree for whimsical finials and pendants on her pieces. Antiques: New Study of Marie Zimmermann, Metalsmith 2011-11-17T22:32:18Z The rare find dates from 950-800BC, with beautiful refined incised decoration at the finials. British Museum takeover safeguards buried treasure agencies as quango goes 2010-11-23T18:30:00Z Q: The finial on a newel in my home was damaged. How to repair a damaged finial on a newel post 2017-11-17T05:00:00Z Even today at auction, the Napoleonic finial stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston about 25 years ago would not likely fetch more than $10,000, experts say. Gardner Museum Offers New Reward for Item Taken in 1990 Heist 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Torah finials and hanging brass oil lamps will be buffed, Torah covers repaired, windows and curtains revitalized. Reviving the Renaissance Temples of Venice’s Jewish Ghetto 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Longer finials, icicles and teardrops are saved for last. Seven ways to elevate your holiday decorating, according to the pros at Biltmore 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Proxmire uses spray paint to rejuvenate lamp finials and rescue old planters. Secrets of home stagers: Six easy fixes to make you like your house better He traveled with a photographer to about 50 sites, documenting wooden cases with urn or flame finials and clock faces painted with moons, stars and sailing ships that rotate as the hours tick past. Antiques: Do-It-Yourself Comes to Collector Publishing 2010-02-19T06:03:00Z Displayed salon style in lightboxes on the wall, they include works by Rembrandt, Vermeer and Degas, as well as a Napoleonic flagpole finial and a Chinese vase. The scenes of a crime: Kota Ezawa revisits the Gardner Museum theft 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The dispute began when leaders of the nearly 250-year-old Touro Synagogue agreed to sell a set of Torah finial bells from Colonial times for $7.4 million to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Judge: Don't speak with media on synagogue case 2013-01-11T17:53:23Z As for the castle itself, some of its flourishes are subtly Chinese -- like a peony-topped golden finial and another one featuring Chinese cloud patterns and lotus and magnolia flowers. How 'Chinese' will Shanghai Disney be? 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z He sealed the inside of the planter, making it watertight, and hired a local stone company to drill holes in the three stone finials. Colorful Cottage Courtyard 2013-05-13T15:50:07.330Z They disappeared, along with two other works by Rembrandt, five sketches by Degas, a Manet painting, a landscape by Flink and - bizarrely - a bronze finial from a Napoleonic battle flag. In the frame 2010-03-18T09:05:00Z A mvwala staff from this era, an object that traditionally symbolizes power and a connection with ancestors, invokes Christianity as a source of authority with a figure of St. Anthony on its finial. An Unsettling Visit to “Kongo” 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The pieces have some luxurious floral inlay, obelisk finials, paw feet and brackets in the form of bearded faces, but his voluminous papers scarcely refer to them. Antiques: Elvis and Toreadors, Aglow on Black Velvet 2011-02-03T22:55:03Z That much was evident in the research; however, the Brinkmanns needed to guess on the creature’s finial crown, which archaeologists never recovered. That Painted Greek Maiden at the Met: Just Whose Vision Is She? 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z The playthings form elaborately ornamented chateaus, skyscrapers taller than most children, rudimentary cabins, houses of worship with gilded finials, gas stations, bunkers and intergalactic transit hubs. Hand-Me-Downs and Discards from Design History’s Treasure Chest 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z A Museum of London curator holding the medieval roof finial found on a bank of the Thames. Medieval roof finial found beside Thames 2010-08-03T11:30:00Z Brass finials are the finishing touch, a nod to the classic metal beds typically found in Victorian summer cottages. A New Shelter Island Hotel 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Kirsch carries a variety of basic and decorative hardware such as finials, brackets, poles, rings, and holdbacks in different colors, finishes, and materials. Window Treatment Sources We Love 2010-03-18T00:06:00Z “I tend to go away from decorative finials that are very traditional,” he added, noting that he usually prefers simpler options, like curtain rods with flat end caps. How to choose and hang the right curtains for your room 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z The setting also nearly upstages the bird in a painting of a kestrel perched on a finial atop an ornate building. Review | In the galleries: Colorful shapes, dazzling drama 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Both show a tapestry on the wall and a chair with lion’s-head finials. National Gallery confirms one of its Vermeers is actually not a Vermeer 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Even in the archaic Sphinx finial, they disrupt our sense that this is a stylized figure. Review | What if the ancient Greeks and Romans actually had terrible taste? 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z One finial, or spire top, plummeted hundreds of feet into a shrub below, while two others also broke off their spires. A decade after a 5.8-magnitude earthquake, Washington National Cathedral is halfway restored 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The racks were so tall in one corner that the finial of an ornate chandelier cleared it by inches. ‘A Nightmare Every Day’: Inside an Overwhelmed Funeral Home 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z Albert S. Watkins, a lawyer defending Mr. Chansley, previously described the spear as a finial, a decorative ornament, and that its usage is “consistent with the Shamanic faith of the Defendant.” DOJ opposes pretrial release for ‘QAnon Shamam’ Jacob Chansley 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z “Faux native foliage and trees, oversized wreath and gold finials were some of the obvious items to use,” she said. Woman honored to be finalist for Governor’s Mansion contest 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Engravings can be admired on corbels and finials across the UK, remnants of a time when keeping up with the neighbours meant throwing lavish parties and displaying one's riches. The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z Well, the Arlington House flagpole is getting repainted and its finial regilded. Perspective | Ringing in the years: It took a while for the Netherlands Carillon to find its home 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z She leads you up a magnificent stairway with gleaming crystal-ball finials and past a nearly life-size painting of the devil whispering into the ear of Jesus and into the room beyond. Kat Von D is sorry about that anti-vaxx post: 'I was completely uninformed' 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Gaddis, retains many of its original, ornate features, including limestone accents and decorative metal finials. Preservation group finds buyer for Gothic-Revival church 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z He said some old finials were found stored up in the steeple and will be added back to the church’s exterior. New Hampshire Baptist church registered as historic place 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z The finial is shaped like a trident gilded with gold, and its iron hilt is also inlaid with gold. Factbox: The royal instruments for Thai king's coronation 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z At the heart of those celebrations is the raising of the jahenda bala banner on a thick 40-foot pole topped by a massive silver and gold finial, at the Blue Mosque. Missing Flowers and Bitter Politics Put a Damper on Afghan Nowruz Party 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z A photo of the recovered finial appears to show that only part of it is now gold. Finial swiped from conservatory dome returned, gift wrapped 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Looking like a fluid stroke of ink on paper rendered from a brush more than white-hot iron hammered on a resistant anvil, the silhouettes taper at the ends to impossibly delicate finials. Review: 'Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths' shows the delicate artistry of clever metalworkers 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Someone donated an original finial from the Woolworth Building in Manhattan. A Hamptons Question: Do Good Hedgerows Make Good Neighbors? 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z One of Burden’s favorites was the Broadway Roses, named for the rosebuds on its finial ornament on top of the globes. 'Urban Light': Everything you didn't know about L.A.'s beloved landmark 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Anna by Rablabs stainless steel cocktail shaker with amethyst crystal finials. For the shopping procrastinator, here's a guide to our favorite last-minute holiday gifts — from $9 to $9,500 – Los Angeles Times 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The City Hall tower was built during the 1930s in art deco style, but now five copper finials at clock level need to be removed, cleaned, tested and repaired. Norwich City Hall scaffolding time-lapse footage - BBC News 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Physically, Trump emphasised his altered status by drawing a blue curtain across the lobby and placing 10 American flags with eagle finials in front of it, as a suitably televisual presidential backdrop. Attempts to hold Trump to account only seem to make him stronger and stranger 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z Besides pulling down the statue of George III, patriots also knocked the ornamental finials from the posts of a wrought-iron fence that still encircles the Bowling Green. Long-Toppled Statue of King George III to Ride Again, From a Brooklyn Studio 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Now referred to locally as "The Pump", it has been returned to its original appearance with stanchions of seasoned oak and a repaired roof with a new finial. Well House in Gotham village linked to Batman restored - BBC News 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Its finials are adorned with traditional Chinese cloud patterns for harmony, prosperity and purity of heart, and one spire is crowned with a golden peony, the nation’s unofficial national flower. Shanghai Disneyland: Magic Kingdom Meets Middle Kingdom 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Crews will lift the 65-foot steeple into place Thursday atop the Town Clock Church in New Albany and top it with a gold finial. Indiana historic church’s missing steeple to be replaced 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Copper finials - the tips at the top corners along the church - were added where concrete ones were previously. Staunton church gears up for the great reveal 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z Built in 1930, the San Remo was designed with its distinctive twin towers, colonnaded top lanterns and copper finials by Emery Roth, a prolific architect renowned for his elegant Manhattan apartment buildings. Trump Sells His Penthouse for $21.38 Million 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Visualizing evolution as messy and foundational rather than clean and finial is a powerful way to teach others about the complexities of life. Review: 'First Peoples' Series Chronicles Origins And Spread Of Modern Humans 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z But with its pagoda style roofline and ball finials, Prevue Pet’s Royalty birdcage, $399, adds a dash of Chinoiserie style for your feathered friends. Haute dog! Stylish pet furniture that suits your home decor 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z And then they sawed off the crown-shaped finials on each of the fence’s posts. New York Today: What's That You Say? 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The museum says it hopes the reward will help it recover the Napoleonic finial - one of the least recognizable of 13 works stolen by thieves posing as police officers. Boston art museum offers new $100K reward for stolen item 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Fay found an old bike rack and fitted it with added reclaimed wood and finials to create an unusual way to hang vintage and new purses by Southern California leather crafter Lili T. Good Eye Gallery opens in Eagle Rock 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The earthquake shook numerous exterior stone finials, pinnacles and gargoyles, some of which toppled off and struck the ground or the cathedral’s roof. Some of Cathedral’s earthquake repair is finished. But more needs to be done. 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Hoping to open in January, Lancaster is engrossed with talk of floors, finials and finishes. Day in the life of restaurateur-actor-accidental hipster Dustin Lancaster 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Thus he set out to build the city’s first fireproof home, a fact he proudly aired with a finial of a salamander and flames atop the tower at the front of his house. D.C.’s Heurich House brews up Victorian-style mystery 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z It is three stories tall, framed by timber with a steeply-pitched roof capped by a weather vane finial. Postcards From Saratoga: Dark Day at Saratoga Is Hardly a Quiet One 2013-08-21T00:50:06Z One on the nave, for example, is 75 feet high, with a finial cap on the last five feet. Spires at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Cleaned Up, Come Back in View 2013-06-19T01:52:18Z It shines from its perch above display cabinets stuffed with shoes, bibs and other artifacts of the organization's 125-year history, the finial atop the silver cup slightly askew. BAA: Support after attacks at race overwhelming 2013-05-02T00:46:05Z I say "as if" because, of course, these gleaming nacelles are no more the product of careful arrangement, or thoughtful dispensation, than the up-thrust finials and melting buttresses of a termite heap. Staring at the Shard 2013-01-18T18:13:13Z He made sure that the ferns and ivy were framing the facades just so, that the cinnamon-stick lintels and acorn-cap finials were secure, that the trains were running smoothly. Paul Busse, Master Designer of a Whimsical, Shrunken New York City 2012-11-22T03:03:08Z It is a handsome column, with a gilt finial intended to represent flames of fire. Collins' Illustrated Guide to London and Neighbourhood 2012-04-06T02:00:29.250Z “Every single one of those finial caps is different,” she said. Spires at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Cleaned Up, Come Back in View 2013-06-19T01:52:18Z The Pinnacles have often the same ornament, and are crowned with finials composed of a bunch of foliage. The Seven Periods of English Architecture Defined and Illustrated 2012-02-16T03:00:02.940Z Let artists tell of its towers and finials, flying buttresses, gables, cornices, galleries, piers, fa�ades. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z The finials of the fourteenth century benches are to be noticed, especially in the north aisle, where they take the form of grotesque animals. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z But no desecrating hand was laid on the old oaken benches with their carved finials. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z The fine cupola which rises above the crossing is rather dwarfed by the Gothic arcade and finials which surround its base. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z “I was flat out just luckier than he was in the first set,” Isner said about advancing to his third finial of the season. Andy Roddick beats Argentina?s Juan Monaco 6-1, 6-4 at Winston-Salem Open 2011-08-27T03:19:31Z They are sometimes finished with small crosses, but of oftener with finials. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z The southern porch is beautifully proportioned, and the gargoyles extraordinary specimens of birds and beasts, apparently under the same inspiration as the Swavesey finials. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z The canopies, which bow forward, have trefoil ogee arches, surmounted with crockets and finials. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z The birds are everywhere—cresting the finials of the rocks, swooping over the sea, busy teaching the little grey "squabs" to use their wings and trust the air. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z Their straight tall backs were carved in wood, and the arm-rests ended in an ornament called a finial. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z There are clasps and finials used for clothing, heavily inscribed and inlaid with stones. | Connecticut: Glitter That Epitomized an Ancient Culture 2011-07-23T02:33:11Z The apex is crowned outside by a high, carved finial. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z But I'd not bother to cut single finials and small decorations. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Beside the boulder a willow stands, its finials budding with silver; upon the north-western face of the stone is another inscription whose legend startles a wayfarer on beholding the bulk of the huge mass. A West Country Pilgrimage 2011-08-05T02:00:48.947Z In the lower part of Plate I. is the finial of the pediment given in Plate II., from the cathedral of St. Lo. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z They gradually, however, partook of the ornamentation of the font itself, and are often of pyramidal and conical forms, highly decorated with finials, crockets, mouldings and grotesques. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Its conical turret roofs and lofty chimneys, and its flashing finials and girouettes make a brave show above the forest trees. Hospital Sketches 2011-02-16T03:00:37.920Z The tower and spire were absent: as also the fine porches on the east, west, and south sides, the turrets at the angles, and the pinnacles and finials of the buttresses. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z The teapot and sugar bowl are adorned with a pineapple finial. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z The atlas in “Invisible Cities” is equally unreadable, its pages folded and sewn into a pleated cylinder capped at both ends with a decorative metal finial. | Westchester: Maps for Navigating to a New Perspective 2010-12-05T04:30:00Z Over these rises a crocketed finial, and the whole is surmounted by a cross. The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone Instead also of the monotonous balustrade, which is invariably found in Italy, the Spanish architects introduced richly carved crestings, with finials at regular intervals, a feature probably borrowed from Flamboyant Gothic and Moorish. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Early in the style finials were plain bunches of leaves; towards the close beautifully carved finials and crockets with carved foliage of conventional character were introduced. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Between each arch are columns, surmounted with armorial bearings, eagles, and grouped finials. An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. A “roving” bowtell is one which passes up the side of a bench end and round a finial, the term “roving” being applied to that which follows the line of a curve. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" In the middle of the wall confronting the street two columns surmounted with huge round finials showed where there had once been a gate wide enough to admit a coach. Plashers Mead A Novel In one of the mosques, that of El Azhar, the first storey is square on plan, and the second storey has twin towers with lofty bulbous finials. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" Spires end usually in a boss or finial, surmounted by a weathercock. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Who decorated the lectern; who the finials; who did the windows this year? Lady Cassandra At a later date, and when built in stone, the upper portion was raised in height and terminated with a point on which a finial was placed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" The doorway is surmounted by a rich ogee crocketted canopy with finial, and is panelled above. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West The Aisles of the Choir are entered from the transepts by ogee arches, which have crockets and finials, and are flanked by a pair of pinnacles on either side. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Buttresses with bold projection often ending in finials. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance From every buttress rise elegantly carved and crocketed finials. Cathedrals of Spain Note the extravagant crockets and cusp finials as signs of decline. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) He stands under a rich canopy with pinnacles and finials, supported on long buttresses that extend down to the base of the composition. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West A tall and light monument stands between the Lady Chapel and St. Catherine's; its crocketed finials, filled with tracery, rise almost to the ceiling. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Expect no cathedrals from him; but no one, at present, can design a better finial. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) The central part is hexagonal in plan and ornamented by arches and crocketed finials. Cathedrals of Spain I. The fresco painting on the walls is of later date; and I believe the heads which form the finials have been inserted afterwards also, the original windows having been pure fifth order. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) Over the tomb is a detached ogee arched crocketted canopy, with large finial, springing from embattled and pinnacled side buttresses. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West Beasts project at the gable angles, and the summit it crowned by a finial. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia It may, indeed, on its outside apex, receive a finial; but the meeting 300 of the inside lines of its terminal mouldings is necessarily both harsh and conspicuous, unless artificially concealed. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) The mass of domes with supporting flying buttresses, ramps and finials above it, all remind one curiously of a transplanted and ecclesiasticized Chambord. Cathedrals of Spain Its Gothic is voluptuous, and over-wrought; the crockets are bold and florid, and the enormous finial represents a statue of St. Michael. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) They are of considerable height, having fleur-de-lys shaped finials on the top, and below occurs, on one the rose, and on the other the pomegranate, of Henry VIII. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West Above these, again, are eight p. 137columns of polished granite, supporting the superstructure, and these also have eight trefoil dormers, simpler than those below, each finished with a finial of gun metal. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time The northern roofs, however, generally stand in little need of surface decoration, the eye being drawn to the fantastic ranges of their dormer windows, and to the finials and fringes on their points and ridges. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) It is composed of white stone with open panels, pierced by cinquefoils and quatrefoils, while the apex of each panel terminates in a foliated finial. Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them And not content with this exuberance in the external ornaments of the arch, the finial interferes with its traceries. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) But the crockets and finials have been in most instances destroyed. Architectural Antiquities of Normandy Outside the church, near the top of the wall of a cupola-shaped finial of the rood loft turret is an old sun dial. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time Under the general head of roof-ridge and point decoration, we may include, as above noted, the entire race of fringes, finials, and crockets. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) Sometimes they terminate at the top with finials either in the form of heads, bunches of foliage, a chamfered fleur-de-lys and a variety of other ornaments called Poppy-heads, from the French Poupée. Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them It is rich and fully developed Gothic, with crockets and finials, but not yet attaining any extravagant developement. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) The buttresses, on which stand curious vase-shaped finials, are joined by a straight moulded cornice, above which rises a rounded pediment floriated on the outer side. Portuguese Architecture These panels are surmounted by moulded and carved cinquefoil panels, surmounted by carved finials. A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time Stone finials and crockets are, I think, to be considered in architecture, what points and flashes of light are in the color of painting, or of nature. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) He is said to show great knowledge of Gothic architecture, but he never drew well a single column or finial. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Of all these features the most distinctive are its crockets and finials. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) Unfortunately the simplicity of the design is spoilt by the broken and curly volutes which sprawl across the aisles, by ugly finials at the corners, and by a rather clumsy balustrading to the porch. Portuguese Architecture The silver gilt urn has two handles, measures 13 inches from the base to the finial on the cover, and 7 inches at its widest point. Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper No. 47 [Smithsonian Institution] Only do not allow his good designing of finials to be employed as an evidence in matters of divinity, nor thence deduce the incompatibility of Protestantism and art. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) The groins stop short a little below the dome's apex, where they are arched into one another, leaving a saucer-shaped crown now capped by a Turkish finial. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture The cornice and chimney tops are corbelled, and there are iron cresting and finials on the ridge of the hipped roof. The Fairfax County Courthouse Branches too form the framing of all, they are intertwined up the sides, and form above the arches a straight-topped mass of interlacing twigs, out of which grow three large finials. Portuguese Architecture The bench ends within are very interesting, particularly a set with finials in the form of winged figures administering the Eucharist. The Cornish Riviera Early coffee-pot examples were tapering and cylindrical in form, and later matched the tea pots with swelling drums, molded bases, decorated spouts, and molded lids with finials. All About Coffee These lecterns are of oak, 6 feet 7 inches long, and 7 feet high, measured to the top of the ornamental finial. The Care of Books These gables have their sides curved inwards and are adorned with crockets and finials, the latter being attached to the front of the gable, while grotesques project from the angles. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric At the top are long finials with more chains holding corals on which rest armillary spheres. Portuguese Architecture The Mahdi's white, cone-shaped tomb, its dome girt with rings, and ornamented with brazen finials, globe and crescent, shone not six miles away in the midst of miles of mud and straw huts. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan The lid is a high cone surmounted by a small vase-shaped finial, and is hinged to the upper socket of the handle. All About Coffee The finials, the ornament along the ridge, and the entrance door, are all in keeping with the rest of the structure. Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings The stair-turret is surmounted by a hexagonal stone cap, which is pierced with a spire-light and crowned by a finial; and there is also a wooden polygonal bell-cote at the north-west corner of the tower. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Above the central curves this moulding is broken and turned up to end in most curious cone-shaped horns, while from the middle there grows a large and elaborate finial. Portuguese Architecture Four arabesque finials rose, one from each corner of the supporting wall. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan The spout is elaborate and curved; the cover has an urn-shaped finial; and there is a decoration of an engraved medallion surrounded by a wreath with a ribbon forming a true lover's knot. All About Coffee There is an ornamental crest along the ridge, and at each end a neat finial. Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings Either corner of the choir contains a staircase, and is strengthened by a pair of massive buttresses and crowned by an octagonal turret with a conical stone cap and a finial. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric It has a flat ogee head with round projections which give it a roughly trefoil shape, and is framed in rope mouldings of great size, which end above in three curious finials. Portuguese Architecture The canopy, ogee-shaped above, and with a plain elliptical arch below, was much mutilated, but seems to have been crocketed and terminated by a finial. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See There are also battlements with finials capping the top. Travels in the Far East The finials and crest along the ridge are light, and harmonize with the general design. Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings Each pillar is surmounted by a pinnacle, and behind each canopy rises a crocketed gable, again crowned by a huge finial. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric A square frame with flamelike border rises to the top of the side finials to enclose a field cut into squares by narrow grooves. Portuguese Architecture We are told of pointed arches and tracery merely punched out, of crockets and finials barely hinted without any fine forms or beautiful relief, and of the lack of any “deep-shadowed infinity of mouldings.” Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See It is built in the form of a square tower, rising in a series of terraces, growing smaller and ending in a finial at the summit. Travels in the Far East The practice is also a good one of combining balustrades, finials and other metal-work at the tops of buildings with the system, by which protection is rendered more complete. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science The finial before the stall of the Canon in Residence has a griffin attached to it, and that in front of the Dean’s stall a lion. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Each recess has a pointed arch richly moulded, and with broad bands of very unusual leaves, while above it rises a tall ogee canopy, crocketed and ending in a large finial. Portuguese Architecture The second seal shows an arcaded building standing on a stone plinth of four courses, and flanked by towers with conical roofs and ball finials. Exeter This proportion gives it an air of dignity and repose, while its gilded surface from base to finial causes it to be truly magnificent. Travels in the Far East Amid a coronet of decorated finials the great octagonal spire grows naturally with no abrupt revelation of its change of plan. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum In front of the Sanctuary are preserved two old Perpendicular pews or stalls, with carved finials. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric At the ends are vase-shaped finials, and another supported by dragons rises from the pediment. Portuguese Architecture In this most remarkable engraven memorial, the finial of the principal canopy is surmounted by a helm with mantling, wreath, and the crest of Hastings—a bull’s head sable; No. 385. The Handbook to English Heraldry He had one of those foolish things, just invented, a hollow butt of hickory; and the finial ring of his spare top looked out, to ask what had happened to the rest of it. Crocker's Hole From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore The two western towers it unites are, in themselves, not sufficiently important in comparison with the rest of the edifice; in fact, they are little more than finials to the screen. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum The finial is very heavy, though beautifully wrought to represent birds and foliage. Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire The inner side of the trefoil is cusped, crockets and finials enrich the outer moulding of the opening, while beyond the jambs are niches, now empty. Portuguese Architecture The lions and griffons and mythical beasts of the finials were singing. A Child's Book of Saints The termination of the finials was unfortunately omitted in the photograph, hence the abrupt line at the top. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship The triple lancets of the clerestory occur in pairs between flying buttresses with tall finials; below these, in the aisles, are two two-light windows, divided by lesser buttresses terminating in gables. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum The pinnacles have been crocheted and terminated with a carved finial, but they are now greatly wasted away. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys These, like all the turrets, are capped with melon-shaped stone roofs, and curious finials. Portuguese Architecture This interest was expressing itself in large new institutions, and these institutions were generously embodying themselves in solid stone—in mullions, groins, gargoyles, finials, and the whole volume of approved scholastic detail. On the Stairs The columns, lintels, sills, belts, finials and mouldings are to be close hammered work, with carving where indicated on the drawings. The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 It consists of a pointed, crocketed arch, terminating in an elaborate finial; with a flat slab below, originally inlaid with a brass. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum The stones laid in the underpinning may be coarse and inelegant, but, even so, each such stone perpetuates itself in silent echo clear up through to the finial. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune Above the finial of the ogee runs a corbel table supporting a pierced and crested parapet, a little different in design from the rest. Portuguese Architecture The finial, excluding its pyramidal base, should have the dimensions of the capital of a column. The Ten Books on Architecture The lower portion contains, on each side, a pair of two-light windows, glazed, each divided by a transom, and their heads having an ogee label crocketed and finished with a tall finial also crocketed. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See The buttresses 21 do not rise above the parapet, and are finished off with richly-panelled gables, ornamented with crockets and finials. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See A. They were worked in stages, and their set-offs have frequently triangular heads, sometimes plain but often ornamented with crockets and finials of a more decorative character than those of the Early English style. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. The outer sides of the ogee, which ends in a large finial, are enriched with large vine-leaf crockets. Portuguese Architecture The proportions of the roof in the centre should be such that the height of the rotunda, excluding the finial, is equivalent to one half the diameter of the whole work. The Ten Books on Architecture The upper stage, which is much less lofty, has also two two-light windows on each face, surmounted by crocketed ogee label mouldings and finials. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See A large pinnacle, richly decorated, like the others, with crockets and finials, finishes the compartment. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See A. They are very beautiful, and are generally surmounted by triangular or ogee-shaped canopies, enriched with crockets and finials, while the interior of the canopies are groined with numerous small rib mouldings. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. Within comes the doorway itself; a large trefoiled arch of many mouldings of which the outermost, richly crocketed, turns up as an ogee, to pierce the horizontal line above with its finial. Portuguese Architecture At the south-western angle is an octagonal turret staircase, capped by a pyramidal roof rising from within a battlemented parapet, and terminating in a carved finial. Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings The carving shows foliage and finials of great beauty, and beneath the canopies are angel figures bearing the insignia of the Bishop's office. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The bays are marked by plain aisle buttresses, terminating in three-cornered caps, with a battlement of cusped stonework ornamented with finials behind them. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See The crockets and finials of this style, as decorative embellishments, are peculiarly graceful, chaste, and pleasing in contour. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. Each outward projection of this round moulding ends in a large finial, so that there are five in all, one to each cusp and three to the pentagon. Portuguese Architecture Thirty-two small figures may be counted in niches in the buttresses dividing the compartments; crockets, finials, and pinnacles decorate the various canopies over the carvings. Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings Furniture hardware and accessories excavated at Jamestown include hinges, locks, drawer pulls, chest handles, escutcheon plates, upholstering tacks, hasps, and finials. New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America The buttresses of the aisles are decorated with gargoyles and crowned with pinnacles of a considerable size with crocketed spires and finials. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See In Cowley Church, near Oxford, are open seats of the date of 1632, which have at the ends finials carved in the shallow angular designs of that period. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. Two like them have the ogee moulding, and at the sides a rounded moulding carried on corbels and finished above the window with a carved finial. Portuguese Architecture Eastlake give a somewhat technical account of its constructive features, its gables, buttresses, finials, lath and plaster parapets, wooden pinnacles and, what its proprietor himself describes as his "lean windows fattened with rich saints." A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century It has a fine oak staircase, the newels beautifully carved and enriched with pierced finials and pendants. Vanishing England Between the two smaller arches is a niche, with a canopy decorated with a double row of gables and finials. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See Triangular or pedimental canopies and pinnacles, more enriched than before with crockets and finials, yet without redundancy of ornament, also occur in the churches built during this century. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. The twisted mouldings are carried up beyond the capitals to form a huge trefoil turning up at the top to a large and rather clumsy finial. Portuguese Architecture He leads us up to the finial of one of the stalls, which is carved in the figure of a monk. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 11, 1892 The joists of the first floor project from under a finely carved string-course, and the end of each joist has a carved finial. Vanishing England The ogee moulding is richly decorated with foliage, and terminates in a lofty finial reaching to the top of the screen. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See A. Octagonal turrets, plain or covered with sunk panelling, and surmounted with ogee-headed cupolas, which are adorned with crockets and finials. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed. The outside of the arch is crocketed, and ends in a tall finial thrust through the horizontal and crested moulding which, as at the Graça, sets the whole in a square frame. Portuguese Architecture The tower, which for a distance above the root is square, contains four clock-faces and supports an octagonal storey, covered by a panelled stone dome, surmounted in turn by a lantern and its finial. Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically On every side were branching clusters of ice in the form of club-mosses, with here and there varicose veins of clear ice, and pinnacles of the prismatic structure, with limpid crockets and finials. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland Below this finial is an empty niche with a kind of ball-flower ornament at the base. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See On each of its faces is an entrance through a pointed arch, ornamented with crockets and a finial. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 470, January 8, 1831 This grand 16th century finial is a fine example of French ceramic ware, or glazed terracotta, and it is illustrated both by geometrical elevation and a cross sectional drawing. Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 Ironwork and locksmiths' work applied to decoration; grill work and doors in cast or wrought iron; doors and balustrades in bronze, roof decoration in lead, copper, zinc, dormers, spires, finials, vanes; crest and ridge work. Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Associated word: accolade. knightly, a. chivalrous, gallant. knob, n. excrescence, boss, lump, tubercle, knop, stud, hard swelling; finial, knosp. knock, v. rap; clash, bump; strike, beat.--n. blow, stroke; rap. knock about. Putnam's Word Book The arches of the triforium are not ornamented with a gable, as in the nave, but with a moulding decorated with crockets and ending in a rich finial. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See Theres not one finial or mullion round Boomi that hasnt his name on it; he was there with the ox & swivel chain. Unmanned The upper portions are so admirably proportioned that they taper up to a comparatively slight finial with the most perfect gradations. Beautiful Britain—Cambridge The ribs of the cover have as finials the heads of lions; altogether this is a very splendid and noble tomb. Ravenna, a Study The buttresses, finials, tracery, &c. form an assemblage of Gothic embellishments, which, for richness and delicacy can scarcely be equalled. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 581, December 15, 1832 Above these arches are gables covered with crockets, and on the gables are elaborate finials. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See Minarets, a salient feature of Mohammedan architecture, are tall slim towers, in several storeys with balconies, from which the muezzin calls the people to prayer, and terminated by a spire or finial. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Hard by is a fine tithe barn with finials on the gables, and a 15th-cent. house with a most picturesque porch and panelled octagonal chimney. Somerset The square pillar surmounted by sundial and ball which for years supplanted the original finial has in turn been replaced by a new canopy and cross. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter The pinnacles, too, blossomed into crockets and bud-like finials, and began to gather more thickly about the roots of the spire, and from them often leaped flying-buttresses against it. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Above it is a canopy with a richly-foliated arch, and a gable with crockets, terminating in an elaborately-carved finial, with a statue of the archbishop in the act of benediction on the top. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See Locally the little building is known as the beannacán, in allusion, most likely, to its high gables or the finials which once, no doubt, in Irish fashion, adorned its roof. Life of St. Declan of Ardmore and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore The windows are traceried, and have above them figures of the four Evangelists, and ecclesiastical effigies stand as finials on two of the gables. Somerset Locally the little building is known as the "beannacan," in allusion, most likely, to its high gables or the finials which once, no doubt, in Irish fashion, adorned its roof. The Life of St. Declan of Ardmore The delicate lace-like finials, rising from the highest points of court and tower alike, express aspiration. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition The aisle windows have ogee gables above them with finials, and immediately above them a band of panelling running right across the exterior buttresses. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See The butterfly also sleeps on the top of the stem, which increases its likeness to the natural finial of the grass. The Naturalist on the Thames The farm near the church has an ecclesiastical-looking window and some carved finials. Somerset The whole of the exterior is covered with rich carving, crocketed finials, innumerable gargoyles and the usual enriched mouldings of Gothic architecture. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 2 The chanticleers on the finials surrounding the court symbolize the dawn of Christianity. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Below this is a cusped arch in each light of the triforium with a crocketed gable ending in a finial above it. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See At Rheims it is the magnificent wealth of details that crowds upon the view, the walls and arches are surcharged with statues, with niches, with brackets, pinnacles, tracery, foliage, finials and turrets. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 The circling birds, in the lace-work of the spiral finials, sang their night songs, as the glow in the sky changed, softened, deepened. In and out of Three Normady Inns Everything fits perfectly: arches, tower, cornices, finials, statues, planting-it all goes to enrich the one impression. An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition Originally they were intended as finials to the double cascade which was to have swept down to the court from the Altar of the Ages on the tower. The Jewel City From the finial at the top of the gable rise three ribs running to the top of the arch above. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See On the right rose a block of syenite, ruddy with orthose, all rounded lumps and twisted finials; it discharged a quantity of black sand that streaked the gravel plain. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Sweeping the glance round to south, we see the southern of the two Jilsayn, tall mounds of horizontal strata, with ironstone in harder lines and finial blocks. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Even the broken finial and the two crockets lying on the ground expose your ignorance. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 17, 1917 The conception of profusion becomes almost barbaric in the three pavilioned entrances, flanked on either side by the tall finials suggesting minarets. The Jewel City These finials are an addition of the beginning of the century, and are of plaster. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See At this sound Lancelot Carnaby stopped from his rash venture into the water, and drew himself back into an ivied bush, which served as the finial of the little garden hedge. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale The apex of the gloomy porphyritic trap is a long spine of the tenderest azure-white, filmy as the finials of Milan Cathedral, and apparently melting into thin air. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 They stand as finials on the continued columns that pierce the arcade wall and emphasize the arches. The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition The delicate finials rising from the summit of the tower express Aspiration. The Jewel City And certainly their finials do suggest kneeling, and the arrangement is such that it is nearly impossible not to assume a really devotional attitude. John Keble's Parishes A single finial figure of a girl with a bow is used on top of the same column. The Art of the Exposition The Chanticleers on the finials surrounding the Court symbolize the Christian Era. Palaces and Courts of the Exposition Dividing the spaces above them, on a higher level, are repeated finials of a pert chanticleer, emblem of the east, the dawn and immortality. The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition In harmony also with the theme, the human figure is absent from the sculpture, save in the caryatids of the porches and the groups supporting the tall finials. The Jewel City The smoky old town of Edinburgh was so shaken and beaten upon and icily drenched that rattling finials and tiles were torn from ancient gables and whirled abroad. Greyfriars Bobby Figure crowning the minor Domes - Sherry E. Fry A standing finial figure, on the minor domes, of graceful pose. The Art of the Exposition Something like a small white flame in the sky was the carved white coral finial on the gable of the mosque which had caught full the rays of the sun. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows These are the panels of "The Signs of the Zodiac," by Hermon A. MacNeil, who is better known to Exposition visitors by his finial group, "The Adventurous Bowman," on the Column of Progress. The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition The chanticleers on the finials surrounding the court symbolize the Christian Era. The Jewel City Overhead, loose tiles and finials rattled in the wind, that was dying away in fitful gusts; but Auld Jock heard nothing. Greyfriars Bobby Spandrels in Court of Palms; Decorative finial figure, in Court of Abundance repeated figure in Portal of Thought, etc. The Art of the Exposition The roof is charmingly rounded at the angles, and bears mansarde windows with carved mullions and leaden finials on their gables. The Lily of the Valley |
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