Illustrated Architecture Dictionary ................. Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary

Ancone (Ancon)
Alternate names: Console, S scroll, Scroll

Architecture

A decorative bracket in the form of a vertical scroll that supports a cornice or entablature over a door or window

Greek: "ancone" - elbow or hollow

Found in classical Greek and Roman architecture and derivatives, including Beaux Arts Classicism, Classical Revival, Federal, Georgian Revival, Greek Revival, Neoclassicism, Renaissance Revival, Second Empire

An ancone is a type of corbel

S scroll can also refer to an "S" curved design.

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Furniture: console

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Examples from Buffalo architecture:

• Forest Lawn Cemetery Main Street Entrance Gate
  
  
• Spaulding Building
  
  
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery
  
  
• Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum
  
  
• Knox House
  
  
• Root Building
  
  
• General Electric Building / Electric Tower
  
  
• Marine Trust Company Building
  
  
• Sattler Theatre
  
  
• Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum - Interior
  
  
• 143 Linwood Avenue - Interior

Other examples:

• Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, South Carolina
  
  
• Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy