| The lowest cylindrical section was the most lavishly decorated, with a wide turquoise-glazed epigraphic band set between geometric medallions and palmette motifs. |
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| The side is decorated with rose and palmette motifs that alternate between green and blue, with colour haloing. |
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| In the centre of each cover is a long medallion with palmette shaped extensions. |
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| The front and back faces of the palmette leaves are filled with vegetal compositions with palmette motifs, carved in shallow relief. |
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| The frieze is adorned with a central motif of a palmette, with unusual alternating cut out ovals and circles, flanked by a pair of volutes. |
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| Inside we witness the fine examples of the ancient, intricate and variety in Almohad décor of rosette, scallop and palmette. |
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| Anthemion, design consisting of a number of radiating petals, developed by the ancient Greeks from the Egyptian and Asiatic form known as the honeysuckle or lotus palmette. |
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| There were rats in its parlors, but its brick facade was festooned with fruited garlands and palmette friezes, like a silent film star gone to seed, still gamely making up and waiting for her close-up. |
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| The tombstone has a four-line inscription in thuluth-style calligraphy which begins at the bottom of the palmette motif and terminates with another palmette-leaf motif at its lower end. |
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| Decorative plasterwork with friezes of palmette motifs in relief, embellish the dome in the centre of the portico for latecomers and the upper part of the walls of the entrance area. |
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| In the middle of the inscription panel above the doorway arch is a damaged carving of a lion's head, and the decorative band framing the entryway has palmette motifs. |
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| The pruning shapes are: palmette, spindle, vase and funnel. |
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| Among the many motifs: square and diamond shaped lattice work, the palmette and the scalloped shell in association with other ornaments inspired by nature that topped mirrors and wood paneling or adorned furniture. |
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| It shows a geometrical star pattern surrounding stylised palmette leaves in the centre enclosed by symmetrical undulating vine scrolls ending in grapes or vine leaves. |
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| Stylized plants rise up through round openings in the palmette. |
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| Next to the base is a frieze of palmette leaves. |
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| The curved front of the entablature centers around a palmette shaped cartouche, from which a large rounded molding emerges and runs down to the plinths. |
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| At the centre of each of the panels are ivory medallions in relief, each with a huge boss at its centre and pendants terminating in rosette and palmette motifs. |
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| A repetitive decorative element appeared: a carved diamond shape with a round palmette at its center and new shapes emerged such as chairs with rear legs, square of section, that curve outward. |
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| A fine voluted Corinthian capital and a collection of antefixes of palmette design from the palace gave an idea of its original splendour. |
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| Surviving decorations in the fortified manorhouse of Teshik Kala display the palmette, rosette, lotus, and ace-of-spade motifs that the Seljuqs later carried westward to Anatolia and beyond in the 11th and 12th centuries. |
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| The continuous pattern of alternating lotus and palmette springing from connecting spirals decorates especially the cyma recta molding of the cornice. |
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