“They share specific features, such as the sharply pointed fronds and the sinuous stalks of flowers growing out of the volutes.”

“In two of the examples in New York, single apes and men squat in identical poses in alternation beneath the Corinthian volutes of the capital.”

“The faces of the volutes must recede from the edge of the abacus inwards by one and a half eighteenths of that same amount.”