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

Egg-and-dart

A decorative molding carved with a series of rounded ovals and arrowheads

"The 'egg and dart' and 'egg and leaf' mouldings are derived from an Egyptian lotus border" - Egyptian Origin of the Ionic Capital and of the Anthemion, by W. H. Goodyear © 1887

In the egg-and-anchor, egg-and-arrow, and egg-and-tongue moldings, the arrowhead ornament is varied in form

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

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Examples from Buffalo:

• Illustration above: Grace Millard Knox House
  
  
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery - Example #1
  
  
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery - Example #2
  
  
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery - Example #3
  
  
• Schoellkopf-Vom Berge Manor
  
  
• St. John the Baptist Church
  
  
• Root Building
  
  
• Delaware Court Building
  
  
• Frederick G. Goellner Mausoleum, Forest Lawn Cemetery ........... Photo: facade
  
  
• Watson House - Buffalo Club
  
  
• Ellicott Square Building
  
  
• Red Jacket Apts.
  
  
• Buffalo Museum of Science
  
  
• Sattler Theatre

Other examples:

• Museum, Olympia, Greece
  
  
• Pantheon, Rome, Italy
  
  
• Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy