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Note the articulation of the facade with arched corbel tables and pilaster strips.
The use of limestone for the water table, belt course, rusticated jack arches, and pilaster capitals is unique in Kent County architecture.
This very simple Louis XVI style mantel is adorned with classical motifs all covered with fluting: the pilaster, the heads and the entablature.
The pilaster jambs are fluted and finely filleted and rise up to full square acanthus leaf rosettes.
The length of corrugated profiles should therefore be interrupted through appropriate joints or pilaster strips.
The facade still bears the trace of an ionic pilaster with volute which would have ordered the façade at this time.
Its architecture with the gently bent pilaster strips and mouldings indicates already a transition to classicistic forms.
As a decorative feature, the anta is considered to be the forerunner of the pilaster.
The gopura is generally constructed with a stone base and a superstructure of brick and pilaster.
A caryatid is a statue of a woman generally dressed in a long toga used to support an entablature in place of a column, a pilar or a pilaster.
Finely carved pilaster shaped fluted jambs rise up to delicate square acanthus rosettes.
The fluted sculpted pilaster jambs rise up to heads with square acanthus leaf rosettes.
Pair of iron archways supported by two pilaster filleted columns topped by capitals.
The mantel is framed by two sheathed pilaster jambs and an entablature with a frieze.
A double arched window divided by a small pilaster or column that acts as a support. Occasionally framed by a third arch.
This pilaster may have originated in the Episcopal Basilica of Lisbon.
The pilaster ends with a winged caryatid placed on an acanthus leaf.
If the long walls of a temple extend past the cella, or sanctuary, to form the side walls of the porch or anteroom, these long walls often terminate with antas, an anta being a corner post or pilaster.
The anta of ancient Greece was the direct ancestor of the Roman pilaster.
Given that the central element of the plaque indicates that the motifs would have been repeated vertically, there seems little doubt that the piece in question is all that remains of an elaborate pilaster.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The spiral staircase leading to this is cut in the thickness of a pilaster.
I clung for support to the pilaster that finished the balustrade of the stairway.
The stiles of the entrance are basically the pilaster type although the reeding within the pilaster is rounded rather than flat.
There is a central shaft, a pilaster on each side, and then the wall.
The compartments are divided by a shallow Buttress or pilaster Strip.
It is fastened to the pilaster which supports the arch above.
Further, there was a pilaster in the middle, below the central bracket.
In this loggia the name of Giovan Maria is carved on a pilaster.
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