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

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

Erectheion, Acropolis, Athens, Greece	Albright-Knox Art Gallery

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

Often decorated with one or more acanthus leaves

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:

• Right illustration above: Albright-Knox Art Gallery  Corbel
  
  
• Spaulding Building Corbel
  
  
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery Corbel
  
  
• Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum   Corbel
  
  
• Root Building Corbel
  
  
• General Electric Building / Electric Tower Interior corbel
  
  
• Sattler Theatre Corbel
  
  
• Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum  Interior corbel
  
  
• 143 Linwood Avenue  Interior corbel

• Forest Lawn Cemetery Main Street Entrance Gate  Keystone
  
  
• Marine Trust Company Building Keystone

• 678 Main Street Beaux Arts stylized ancone
  

• Thomas J. McKinney House   Buttress

Other examples:

• Left illustration above:  Erectheion, Acropolis, Athens, Greece  Corbel
  
  
• Dock Street Theatre, Charleston, South Carolina  Corbel
  
  
• Pitti Palace, Florence, Italy  Corbel
  
  
• Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia  Corbel