DK CHING (ORNAMENT) ✅

Ornament

An accessory, article, or detail that lends grace or beauty to something to which it is added or of which it is an integral part.

Pictograph

A pictorial sign or symbol.

Graffito

An ancient drawing or writing scratched on stone, plaster, or other hard surface.

Sgrafitto

Decoration produced by cutting or scratching through a surface layer of paint or plaster to reveal a ground of contrasting color.

Mosaic

A picture or decorative pattern made by inlaying small, usually colored pieces of tile, enamel, or glass in mortar.

Tessera

One of the small pieces of colored marble, glass, or the tile used in mosaic work.

Smalto

Colored glass or enamel, in the form of minute squares, used in mosaic work.

Cosmati Work

A decorative mosaic technique for architectural surfaces developed by Roman architects, balancing intricate geometric patterns of colored stones and glass with smooth areas of plain stone disks and strips.

Relief

The projection of a figure or form from the flat background on which it is formed.

Cavo-relievo

Sculptural relief in which the highest points of the modeled forms are below or level with the original surface.

Alto-relievo

Sculptural relief in which the modeled forms project from the background by at least half their depth.

Mezzo-relievo

Sculptural relief intermediate between high relied and bas-relief.

Bas-relief

Sculptural relief that projects very slightly from the background.

Anaglyph

An ornament carved or embossed in low relief.

Mural

A large picture painted on or applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface.

Fresco

The art or technique of painting on a freshly spread, moist plaster surface with pigments ground up in water or a limewater mixture.

Opus Sectile

Any mosaic of regularly cut material.

Opus Alexandrium

A form of opus sectile having a geometric pattern formed with few colors, such as black and white, or dark green and red.

Opus Reticulatum

An ancient Roman masonry wall faced with small pyramidal stones set diagonally with their square bases forming a netlike pattern.

Opus Vermiculatum

A mosaic of tessera arranged by inlaying fine, delicately colored stones into a white or black marble surface.

Applique

A decoration or ornament made by cutting out a design and fastening it to a larger piece of material.

Inlay

To decorate by setting pieces of wood, ivory, or the like into a surface, at the same level.

Emboss

To raise, mold, or carve a surface design in relief.

Engrave

To carve, cut, or etch designs on a hard surface, as that of metal, stone, or the end grain of wood.

Intaglio

A figure design incised into the surface of a stone or metal plate so that an impression yields a figure in relief.

Openwork

Ornamental or structural work having a latticelike nature or slowing openings through its substance.

Filigree

Ornamental openwork of delicate or intricate design.

Pastiche

An artistic composition consisting of forms or motifs borrowed from different sources.

Postiche

Artificial, counterfeit, or false, as of an architectural ornament that is added superfluously or inappropriately.

Star

A convetional figure usually having 5 or more points radiating from a center, often used as an ornament and symbol.

Star of David

A hexagram used as a symbol of Judaism.

Hexagram

A 6-pointed starlike figure, formed by extending each of the sides of a regular hexagon into equilateral triangles.

Glory

A ring, circle, or surrounding radiance of light, such as a halo, nimbus, or aureole.

Halo

A disk or ring of radiant light around or above the head, traditionally symbolizing the sanctity of a divine or sacred personage in religious paintings and sculptures.

Aureole

A circle of light or radiance surrounding the head or body in the representation of a sacred personage.

Vesica Piscis

An elliptical, pointed figure used in early Christian art as an emblem of Christ.

Chi-Rho

A Christian monogram and symbol formed by superimposing the first 3 letters of the Greek word of Christ.

Table

A raised or sunken rectangular panel on a wall, distinctively treated or ornamented with inscriptions, painting, or sculpture.

Tablet

A flat slab or plaque having a surface suitable for or bearing an inscription, carving, or the like.

Medallion

An oval or circular tablet, often bearing a figure or ornament in relief.

Cartouche

An oval or oblong, slightly convex surface, surrounded with ornamental scrollwork, for receiving a painted or low-relief decoration.

Grotesque

A decorative style characterized by the fantastic shaping and combining of incongruous human and animal forms with foliage or similar figures, often distorting the natural into caricature or absurdity.

Antic

A grotesque sculpture of animal, human, or foliated forms, such as a gargoyle.

Mask

An often grotesque representation of a head or face, used as an architectural ornament.

Griffin

A mythological animal having the head and wings of an eagle and the body and tail of a lion.

Griffe

An ornament projecting from the round base of a column toward a corner of a square or polygonal plinth.

Ballflower

A medieval English ornament suggesting a flower of 3 or 4 petals enclosing and partially concealing a ball.

Cross

An object or figure consisting of an upright and a transverse piece at right angles to each another, used as a symbol of Christianity.

Latin Cross

A cross having an upright vertical shaft crossed near the top by a shorter horizontal bar.

Celtic Cross

A cross shaped like a Latin cross and having a ring about the intersection of the shaft and crossbar.

Greek Cross

A cross consisting of an upright crossed in the middle by a horizontal of the same length.

Jerusalem Cross

A cross whose 4 arms each terminate in a crossbar, often with a small Greek cross centered in each quadrant.

Maltese Cross

A cross formee having the outer face of each arm indented in a V.

Cross Formee

A cross having arms of equal length, each expanding outward from the center.

Motif

A distinctive and recurring shape, form , or color in a design.

Checker

To mark or decorate with a squared pattern.

Reticulate

Resembling or covered with a network of regularly intersecting lines.

Diaper

A pattern of small, repeated figures connecting or growing out of one another, originally used in the Middle Ages in weaving silk and gold.

Imbrication

A pattern or design resembling the regular overlapping of tiles or shingles.

Herringbone

A pattern consisting of rows or short, parallel lines, that in any adjacent rows, slant in opposite directions, used in masonry, parquetry, and weaving.

Chevron

A V-shaped pattern used in heraldry and as ornamentation.

Dancette

An ornamental zigzag, as in molding.

Fret

A decorative design contained within a band or border, consisting of repeated, often geometric figures.

Meander

A running ornament consisting of an intricate variety of fret or fretwork.

Guilloche

An ornamental border formed of 2 or more interlaced bands around a series of circular voids.

Venetian Dentil

Any of a series of small rectangular blocks alternating with sloping surfaces on an archivolt or molding.

Scroll

An ornament having a spiral or convulated form resembling a partly or loosely rolled parchment.

Vitruvian Scroll

A series of scrolls forming a stylized wave pattern.

Banderole

A sculptured bad resembling a long ribbon or scroll, adapted to receive an inscription.

Strapwork

Ornamentation composed of folded, crossed, and interlaced bands, sometimes cut with foliations.

Foliated

Ornamented with foils or representations of foliage.

Wreath

A decorative band or garland of flowers, foliage, or other ornamental material.

Festoon

A decorative representation of a string or garland of flowers, foliage, ribbon, or the like, suspended in a curve between 2 points.

Fleur-de-Lis

A stylized 3-petaled iris flower tied by an encircling band, used as the heraldic bearing of the royal family of France.

Lotus

A representation of various aquatic plants in the water lily, used as a decorative motif in ancient Egyptian and Hindu art and architecture.

Anthemion

An ornament of honeysuckle or palm leaves in a radiating cluster.

Palmette

A stylized palm leaf shape used as a decorative element in classical art and architecture.

Rosette

An ornament having a generally circular combination of parts resembling a flower or plant.

Dogtooth

Any of a series of closely spaced, pyramidal ornaments, formed by sculptured leaves radiating from a raised center, used in early English Gothic architecture.

Arabesque

A complex and ornate design that employs flowers, foliage, and sometimes animal and geometric figures to produce an intricate pattern of interlaced lines.

Calf's-tongue

A molding having pendant, tonguelike elements carved in relief against a flat or curved surface.

Scallop

Any of a series of curved projection forming an ornamental border.

Purfle

To decorate a shrine or tabernacle with miniature architectural forms to produce a lacy effect.

Molding

Any of various narrow, ornamental surface with uniform cross sections and a profile shaped to produce modulations of light, shade, and shadow.

Half Round

A molding having a semicircular cross section

Quarter Round

A convex molding whose section is a quarter circle.

Ovolo

A convex molding having a profile approximating a quarter section of a circle or ellipse.

Boltel

A convex, rounded molding.

Gardoon

A convex molding elaborately carved with receding or indented with notches.

Aaron's Rod

A convex molding having pointed leaves or scrollwork emerging at regular intervals.

Cable Molding

A convex molding having the form of a rope.

Bead

A small convex molding usually having a continuous cylindrical surface.

Astragal

A small convex molding usually semicircular in section.

Baguette

A small convex molding of semicircular section, small than astragal.

Bead and Reel

A convex molding having the form of disks alternating with spherical or elongated beads.

Pearl Molding

A molding having the form or a row of pearls or beads.

Reeding

A parallel set of small convex moldings for ornamenting a place or curved surface.

Profile

An outline of an object formed on a vertical plane passed though the object at right angles to one of its principal horizontal dimensions.

Arris

A sharp edge or ridge formed by 2 surfaces meeting at an exterior angle.

Bullnose

A rounded or obtuse exterior angle.